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