The Ascent — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Directed by Larisa Shepitko

• Boris Plotnikov
  as Sotnikov
• Vladimir Gostyukhin
  as Rybak
• Anatoliy Solonitsyn
  as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
• Lyudmila Polyakova
  as Avginya Demchikha, the mother
• Viktoriya Goldentul
  as Basya Meyer, the girl
• Sergei Yakovlev
  as Petr Sych, village elder

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