Directed by:
Larisa ShepitkoScreenplay:
Larisa ShepitkoComposer:
Alfred SchnittkeCast:
Борис Плотников, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Mariya Vinogradova, Larisa Shepitko, Sergey Yakovlev, Aleksandr Pyatkov (more)VOD (1)
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The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko’s final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus. When they fall into the hands of German forces and come face-to-face with death, each must choose between martyrdom and betrayal, in a spiritual ordeal that lifts the film’s earthy drama to the plane of religious allegory. With stark, visceral cinematography that pits blinding white snow against pitch-black despair, The Ascent finds poetry and transcendence in the harrowing trials of war. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Борис Плотников](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/269/159269410_e548b3.jpg)
Борис Плотников
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Skazka o Zvyozdnom malchike (1983) (TV movie)
The Ascent (1977)
Heart of a Dog (1988) (TV movie)
![Vladimir Gostyukhin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/278/159278962_07703f.jpg)
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Close to Eden (1991)
The Ascent (1977)
Prince Vladimir (2006)
![Anatoly Solonitsyn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273399_a37886.jpg)
Anatoly Solonitsyn
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Stalker (1979)
The Legend of Till Ullenspiegel (1976)
![Lyudmila Polyakova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/639/158639949_09b2f4.jpg)
Lyudmila Polyakova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
The Ascent (1977)
The Commissar (1967)
![Mariya Vinogradova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533883_0ca589.jpg)
Mariya Vinogradova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Chipollino (1972)
Office Romance (1977)
Něbesa obětovannyje (1991)
![Larisa Shepitko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/460/460041_7b2957.jpg)
Larisa Shepitko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Ascent (1977)
Carnival in Moscow (1956)
Agony (1981)
![Sergey Yakovlev](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/342/160342173_6c91d0.jpg)
Sergey Yakovlev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Stalker (1979)
The Ascent (1977)
Air Crew (1979)
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Dersu Uzala (1975)
A Cruel Romance (1984)
The Legend of Till Ullenspiegel (1976)
![Viktoriya Goldentul](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/127/162127468_75a553.jpg)
Viktoriya Goldentul
Best movies:
The Ascent (1977)
![Sergey Kanishchev](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/127/162127478_1ca4f6.jpg)
Sergey Kanishchev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Ascent (1977)
![Sergey Yurtaykin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/451/162451919_391399.jpg)
Sergey Yurtaykin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Tropoy beskorystnoy lyubvi (1971)
The Ascent (1977)
Tikhiy Don III (1958)
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Office Romance (1977)
The Ascent (1977)
Formula lyubvi (1984) (TV movie)
Vadim Gusev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Ascent (1977)
The Battle for Moscow (1985)
Sergey Fyodorov
Best movies:
The Ascent (1977)
Nikolaj Sektimenko
Best movies:
The Ascent (1977)
Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1976)