The Ascent
Directed by Larisa Shepitko
Starring Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev, Mariya Vinogradova, Mykola Sektymenko, Leonid Yukhin, Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
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During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- Original title
- Восхождение
- Original language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- Screenplay
- Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
- Music
- Alfred Schnittke
- Cinematography
- Vladimir Chukhnov
- Cast
- Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev, Mariya Vinogradova, Mykola Sektymenko, Leonid Yukhin, Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
Updated August 14, 2026
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