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The Ascent

Cast

Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul View All


Crew

Larisa Shepitko (Director), Larisa Shepitko (Writer), Yuri Klepikov (Writer) View All

Release: Apr. 2nd, 1977
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes
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.
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Reviewed by

Takoma11
While the film begins with more thrilling elements--like the encounter with the Germans and Sotnikov and Rybak's attempts to evade the Germans--it later settles into a deeper drama that examines what people are willing to do when presented with almost certain death.
Thief
A film from Letterboxd's Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films list whose ranking includes the #7 (i.e.
Citizen Rules
This reminded me of an English language film about Soviet partisans in WWII, which was also powerful but unfortunately I can't remember what it was called.


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