The Ascent
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.
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The Ascent is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. Shepitko and Yuri Klepikov's screenplay was adapted from the 1970 novel Sotnikov by Vasil Bykaŭ.The film follows two Soviet partisans, Sotnikov and Rybak, during World War II as they search for food in a Belarusian village. After being captured by German forces, they face moral dilemmas of self-sacrifice and survival, leading to tragic consequences for both characters.
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- Director
- Larisa Shepitko
- Starring
- Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev, Mariya Vinogradova, Mykola Sektymenko
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