The Ascent
02/04/1977
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.
Movie Information
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
Sergey 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
Vladimir Rudyy
as German officer with black glasses
Anatoli Chebotaryov
as German officer with glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
as German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
as German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
as German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
as Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev
as Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
as Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
as Soviet partisan
Vadym Husiev
as Soviet partisan
Aleksandra Kharitonova
as Soviet partisan with a child
Gennadi Nenashev
as Matyushenko, Soviet partisan
Galina Bulkina
as Peasant woman
Mikhail Selyutin
as Collaborator
V. Sokolov
as Collaborationist policeman
Sergei Kanishchev
as Boy wearing a budenovka
Dima Buranov
as Child
Svetlana Kulkova
as Child
Marina Pchelintseva
as Child
Vladimir Sukhorebry
as
Nikolay Gagarin
as
Nikolai Smirnov
as
Sergey Fyodorov
as
A. Gerasimov
as
V. Lavrentyev
as
N. Chetvergov
as
A. Naumova
as
Yevgeniy Markov
as German officer (uncredited)
