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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Cast
- 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