
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.
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
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer

Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
- Anatoli Chebotaryov
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses

Vasili Kravtsov
German officer

Vladimir Tkalich
German officer

Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner

Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver

Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan

Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan

Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisan
- Vadim Gusev
Vadim Gusev
Soviet partisan

Aleksandra Kharitonova
Soviet partisan with a child
- Gennadi Nenashev
Gennadi Nenashev
Matyushenko, Soviet partisan

Galina Bulkina
Peasant woman

Mikhail Selyutin
Collaborator
- V. Sokolov
V. Sokolov
Collaborationist policeman
- Sergei Kanishchev
Sergei Kanishchev
Boy wearing a budenovka
- Dima Buranov
Dima Buranov
Child
- Svetlana Kulkova
Svetlana Kulkova
Child
- Marina Pchelintseva
Marina Pchelintseva
Child
- Vladimir Sukhorebry
Vladimir Sukhorebry

Nikolay Gagarin

Nikolai Smirnov

Sergey Fyodorov
- A. Gerasimov
A. Gerasimov
- V. Lavrentyev
V. Lavrentyev
- N. Chetvergov
N. Chetvergov
- A. Naumova
A. Naumova

Yevgeniy Markov
German officer (uncredited)



















