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The Ascent (1977)

The Ascent (1977)

Drama History War
Release Date: 1977, April 2
Directors: Larisa Shepitko
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Igor Bezyaev, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Boris Plotnikov, Mariya Vinogradova, Vadim Gusev, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Lyudmila Polyakova, Stanislav Zhitaryov, Aleksandra Kharitonova, Sergei Yakovlev, Yevgeniy Markov

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book woman director world war ii 1940s death snow torture war jesus christ somber crimes against civilians winter mass hanging fear of death captured bullet wound soviet union wounded soldier death by hanging integrity partisan ussr nazi collaborationism belarus tortured nazi collaborator christ figure christian allegory hanged man public hanging collaborator german invasion loyal vs traitor moral values