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
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





