The Ascent
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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.
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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
German officer
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CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967December 15, 2024
This starts and finishes with the same shot - a freezing cold snowscape peppered with a few telegraph poles amidst a wilderness that the Soviet population were prepared to to die to protect from the invading Nazis. Two Red Army partisans are doing their best to frustrate their enemy whilst combating…
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