A LARISA SHEPITKO FILM
The Ascent
19771h 50mMovie
DramaWar
THE STORY
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.
- Pace
- Measured
- Intensity
- Brutal
- Complexity
- Some focus
Good for watching alone and talking about after. Contains graphic violence.
The people behind the story
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
