The Ascent (1977)
Overview
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.
Cast
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the Mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the Girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, Village Elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Village Elder's Wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan Commander
Vladimir Rudyy
German Officer with Black Glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
German Officer
Vladimir Tkalich
German Officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German Soldier, Executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart Driver
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet Partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet Partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet PartisanRecommendations
Escape from Sobibor
The Dawns Here are Quiet
Schindler's List
Fate of a Man
Conspiracy
Nuremberg
The World Will Tremble
The Grey Zone
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Sobibor
Enemy at the Gates
The Pilot: A Battle for Survival
Defiance
Resistance
Kalashnikov AK-47
A Midnight Clear
Bastards
Adam Resurrected
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
In the Fog