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The Ascent

Drama & War German & Russian

Two 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.

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based on novel or book
winter
world war ii
soviet union
snow
torture
bullet wound
partisan
hanged man
death
nazi collaborationism
wounded soldier
woman director
integrity
captured
1940s
mass hanging
fear of death
jesus christ
collaborator
belarus
christ figure
death by hanging
german invasion
war
ussr
christian allegory
tortured
public hanging
crimes against civilians
nazi collaborator
loyal vs traitor
moral values

Stars

poster

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

poster

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

poster

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

poster

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother

poster

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

poster

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

poster

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

poster

Leonid Yukhin

Partisan commander

poster

Vladimir Rudyy

German officer with black glasses

poster

Vasili Kravtsov

German officer

poster

Vladimir Tkalich

German officer

poster

Aleksandr Pyatkov

German soldier, executioner

poster

Sergey Yurtaykin

Cart driver

poster

Igor Bezyaev

Soviet partisan

poster

Stanislav Borodokin

Soviet partisan

poster

Stanislav Zhitaryov

Soviet partisan

poster

Aleksandra Kharitonova

Soviet partisan with a child

poster

Galina Bulkina

Peasant woman

poster

Mikhail Selyutin

Collaborator

poster

Nikolay Gagarin

poster

Nikolai Smirnov

poster

Sergey Fyodorov

poster

Yevgeniy Markov

German officer (uncredited)

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