The Ascent

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

Sergei Yakovlev

Petr Sych, village elder

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

Leonid Yukhin

Partisan commander

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

German officer