The Ascent
- Drama
- War
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.
- Directed by
- Larisa Shepitko
- Written by
- Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
- Based on
- Vasili Bykov
Cast
- Boris Plotnikov
- Vladimir Gostyukhin
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn
- Lyudmila Polyakova
- Viktoriya Goldentul
- Sergei Yakovlev
- Mariya Vinogradova
- Mykola Sektymenko
- Leonid Yukhin
- Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
- Vladimir Rudyy
- Anatoli Chebotaryov
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- war
- 1940s
- death
- woman director
- world war ii
- christ figure
- christian allegory
- torture
- psychological drama
- winter
- snow
- fear of death
- mass hanging
- captured
- wounded soldier
- bullet wound
- jesus christ
- soviet union
- ussr
- death by hanging
- partisan
- integrity
- nazi collaborationism
- hanged man
- collaborator
- belarus
- german invasion
- tortured
- public hanging