The Ascent (1977)
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.
Director: Larisa Shepitko
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Boris Plotnikov as Sotnikov |
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Vladimir Gostyukhin as Rybak |
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Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator |
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Lyudmila Polyakova as Avginya Demchikha, the mother |
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Viktoriya Goldentul as Basya Meyer, the girl |
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Sergei Yakovlev as Petr Sych, village elder |
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Mariya Vinogradova as Village elder's wife |
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Mykola Sektymenko as Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman |
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Leonid Yukhin as Partisan commander |
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Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy as German officer |
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Vladimir Rudyy as German officer with black glasses |
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Anatoli Chebotaryov as German officer with glasses |
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Vasili Kravtsov as German officer |
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Vladimir Tkalich as German officer |
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Aleksandr Pyatkov as German soldier, executioner |
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Sergey Yurtaykin as Cart driver |
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Igor Bezyaev as Soviet partisan |
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Stanislav Borodokin as Soviet partisan |
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Stanislav Zhitaryov as Soviet partisan |
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Vadim Gusev as Soviet partisan |
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Aleksandra Kharitonova as Soviet partisan with a child |
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Gennadi Nenashev as Matyushenko, Soviet partisan |
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Galina Bulkina as Peasant woman |
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Mikhail Selyutin as Collaborator |
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V. Sokolov as Collaborationist policeman |
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Sergei Kanishchev as Boy wearing a budenovka |
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Dima Buranov as Child |
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Svetlana Kulkova as Child |
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Marina Pchelintseva as Child |
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Vladimir Sukhorebry as |
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Nikolay Gagarin as |
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Nikolai Smirnov as |
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Sergey Fyodorov as |
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A. Gerasimov as |
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V. Lavrentyev as |
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N. Chetvergov as |
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A. Naumova as |
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Yevgeniy Markov as German officer (uncredited) |
| Directing | Larisa Shepitko | Director |
| Writing | Vasili Bykov | Novel |
| Writing | Yuri Klepikov | Writer |
| Writing | Larisa Shepitko | Writer |
| Sound | Alfred Schnittke | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Valeriya Belova | Editor |
| Camera | Vladimir Chukhnov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yuri Raksha | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sergey Kalinin | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Yan Pototsky | Sound Director |
| Sound | Yuriy Nikolayevskiy | Conductor |
| Camera | Eduard Shcherbakov | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Yevgeniy Bazanov | Sound Recordist |
| Writing | Aida Repina | Script Editor |
| Sound | Raisa Lukina | Music Editor |
| Crew | V. Sumtsov | Military Consultant |
| Crew | V. Bystrov | Scientific Consultant |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alina Budnikova | Costume Design |
| Visual Effects | Viktor Zhanov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Lighting | V. Zagorodnikov | Lighting Artist |
| Lighting | Leonid Podsukhskiy | Lighting Artist |
| Lighting | A. Modenov | Lighting Artist |
| Editing | Eleonora Praksina | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Yuriy Volodin | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | S. Podlegaev | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | E. Eliasova | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Evgeny Tsymbal | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Willie Geller | Producer |
| Directing | Valentina Khovanskaya | Assistant Director |