The Ascent
1977Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Acted in
Boris Plotnikov
as Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Rybak
Sergey Yakovlev
as Village Elder
Lyudmila Polyakova
as Demchikha
Viktoriya Goldentul
as Basya
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
as Portnov, the Nazi Interrogator
Mariya Vinogradova
as Village Elder's Wife
Nikolai Sektimenko
as Stas'
Anatoli Chebotaryov
Sergei Kanishchev
as Boy wearing Budenovka (as Serezha Kanishchev)
Vasili Kravtsov
Mikhail Selyutin
Leonid Yukhin
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
Vladimir Rudyy
as nemetskiy ofitser v chornykh ochkakh
Sergey Fyodorov