Principal cast
Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova and Viktoriya Goldentul
Film 205 of 498 on the Screen Path
The Ascent
About the film
The Ascent at a glance.
Screen Path places this 1976 film at stop 205 in one curated journey through cinema. The learning experience adds context before you watch and deeper analysis after.
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.
Key craft credits
Vladimir Chukhnov (director of photography), Valeriya Belova (editor), Alfred Schnittke (original music composer) and Yuri Raksha (production design)
- Director
- Larisa Shepitko
- Release
- 1977-04-02
- Runtime
- 110 minutes
- Genres
- Drama and War
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Quiz
- 50 questions
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Full cast
- Boris PlotnikovCharacter: Sotnikov
- Vladimir GostyukhinCharacter: Rybak
- Anatoliy SolonitsynCharacter: Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
- Lyudmila PolyakovaCharacter: Avginya Demchikha, the mother
- Viktoriya GoldentulCharacter: Basya Meyer, the girl
- Sergei YakovlevCharacter: Petr Sych, village elder
- Mariya VinogradovaCharacter: Village elder's wife
- Mykola SektymenkoCharacter: Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
- Leonid YukhinCharacter: Partisan commander
- Aleksandr ZvenigorskiyCharacter: German officer
- Vladimir RudyyCharacter: German officer with black glasses
- Anatoli ChebotaryovCharacter: German officer with glasses
Full crew
Full crew
- Larisa ShepitkoCredits: Director, Writer
- Vasili BykovCredits: Novel
- Yuri KlepikovCredits: Writer
- Alfred SchnittkeCredits: Original Music Composer
- Valeriya BelovaCredits: Editor
- Vladimir ChukhnovCredits: Director of Photography
- Yuri RakshaCredits: Production Design
- Sergey KalininCredits: Makeup Artist
- Yan PototskyCredits: Sound Director
- Yuriy NikolayevskiyCredits: Conductor
- Eduard ShcherbakovCredits: Camera Operator
- Yevgeniy BazanovCredits: Sound Recordist
- Aida RepinaCredits: Script Editor
- Raisa LukinaCredits: Music Editor
- V. SumtsovCredits: Military Consultant
- V. BystrovCredits: Scientific Consultant
- Alina BudnikovaCredits: Costume Design
- Viktor ZhanovCredits: VFX Director of Photography
- V. ZagorodnikovCredits: Lighting Artist
- Leonid PodsukhskiyCredits: Lighting Artist
- A. ModenovCredits: Lighting Artist
- Eleonora PraksinaCredits: Assistant Editor
- Yuriy VolodinCredits: Assistant Camera
- S. PodlegaevCredits: Assistant Camera
- E. EliasovaCredits: First Assistant Director
- Evgeny TsymbalCredits: Second Assistant Director
- Willie GellerCredits: Producer
- Valentina KhovanskayaCredits: Assistant Director
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