The Ascent
dir. Larisa Shepitko
87
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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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Harrowing and bleak yet ultimately uplifting, The Ascent surveys the Russian World War II experience with a clear, compassionate eye.
Directed byLarisa Shepitko
StarringBoris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev
Written byLarisa Shepitko, Yuri Klepikov
CinematographyVladimir Chukhnov
EditingValeriya Belova
MusicAlfred Schnittke
The Ascent
1977 · 1h 49m
Drama, War
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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