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The Ascent (1977)

★ 7.8/10 109 min Drama, War Soviet Union Russian
Director: Larisa Shepitko
Novel: Vasili Bykov
Writers: Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
Script Editor: Aida Repina
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Description

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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Top Cast

Boris Plotnikov
Boris Plotnikov Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Vladimir Gostyukhin Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Anatoliy Solonitsyn Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Lyudmila Polyakova Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Viktoriya Goldentul Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Sergei Yakovlev Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Mariya Vinogradova Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Mykola Sektymenko Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

The Ascent Appears on 8 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #389
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #1058
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Sight & Sound #128

Critic Curated

BBC Culture: The 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women
BBC #11
Paste Magazine The 100 Greatest War Movies
Paste Magazine #38

Filmmaker Curation

Alfonso Cuarón's Favorite Movies
Various #20

Letterboxd Lists

Letterboxd 120 Highest Rated 1970-1979 Films
Letterboxd #05
The Top-Rated Movie of Every Year by Letterboxd Users
Letterboxd #63

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