The Ascent
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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Cast
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mikhail Selyutin
Collaborator
Nikolay Gagarin
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
Galina Bulkina
Peasant woman
Sergey Fyodorov
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Soviet partisan with a child
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisan
Yevgeniy Markov
German officer (uncredited)
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan
Nikolai Smirnov