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The Ascent

Movie
1977
1h 51m
Russian
Drama, War
User Score: 
8
Critic Score: 
86
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Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
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The Ascent

Movie
1977
1h 51m
Russian
Drama, War
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Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
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The Ascent (1977) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
86

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Cast

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Boris Plotnikov
Борис Андреевич Со�...
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Коля Рыбак
Sergey Yakovlev
Пётр Сыч, староста
Lyudmila Polyakova
Авгинья Демчиха
Viktoriya Goldentul
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Павел Гаврилович П�...
Mariya Vinogradova
старостиха
Nikolai Sektimenko
Стась Гоменюк, поли...
Leonid Yukhin
командир партизанс...
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
немецкий офицер
Vladimir Rudyy
немецкий офицер в ч...
Anatoli Chebotaryov
немецкий офицер в о...
Igor Bezyaev
партизан
Stanislav Borodokin
партизан
Galina Bulkina
крестьянка
Vadim Gusev
партизан
Stanislav Zhitarev
партизан
Gennadi Nenashev
Матюшенко. партиза�...
Vasili Kravtsov
немецкий офицер
Aleksandr Pyatkov
немецкий солдат, па...
Mikhail Selyutin
пособник фашистов
Aleksandra Kharitonova
партизанка с ребён�...
Sergey Yurtaykin
возница
Nikolai Smirnov
эпизод
Sergei Kanishchev
мальчик в будёновк�...
Directed By: Larisa Shepitko
Written By: Larisa Shepitko, Yuri Klepikov, + 1 more

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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The original title of the film is Voskhozhdenie.
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CinemaSerf
2 months ago
This starts and finishes with the same shot - a freezing cold snowscape peppered with a few telegraph poles amidst a wilderness that the Soviet population were prepared to to die to protect from the invading Nazis. Two Red Army partisans are doing their best to frustrate their enemy whilst combating More
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