Storyline
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
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Larisa Shepitko's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Ascent is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
