The Ascent
Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House
The Plot
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.
Run Time
1h 49m
Genre
Drama, War, History
Release Date
02 Apr 1977
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian, German
Streaming On
Director & Producers
Top Billed Cast
Boris PlotnikovSotnikov
Vladimir GostyukhinRybak
Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the girl
Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, village elder
Mariya VinogradovaVillage elder's wife
Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid YukhinPartisan commander
German officer
Vladimir RudyyGerman officer with black glasses
German officer with glasses
Technical Team
Vasili BykovNovel
Yuri KlepikovWriter
Larisa ShepitkoWriter
Alfred SchnittkeOriginal Music Composer
Valeriya BelovaEditor
Director of Photography
Yan PototskySound Director
Conductor
Camera Operator
Sound Recordist
Script Editor
Raisa LukinaMusic Editor

