The Ascent
Directed by Larisa Shepitko
Produced by Mosfilm
A bleak, spiritually charged meditation on faith, betrayal, and moral integrity set against the frozen brutality of WWII, structured as a Christian allegory.
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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Keywords
Based On Novel Or BookWinterWorld War IiSoviet UnionSnowTortureBullet WoundPartisanHanged ManDeathNazi CollaborationismWounded SoldierWoman DirectorIntegrityCaptured1940sMass HangingFear Of DeathJesus ChristCollaboratorBelarusChrist FigureDeath By HangingGerman InvasionWarUssrChristian AllegoryTorturedPsychological DramaPublic HangingCrimes Against CiviliansNazi CollaboratorLoyal Vs TraitorMoral Values
Essence
Ensemble
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
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