The Ascent
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
as Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
as Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
as Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
as Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
as Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
as Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
as Partisan commander
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
as German officer
