
The Ascent
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.
- Year: 1977
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: Drama, War
- Studio: Mosfilm
- Keyword: based on novel or book, winter, world war ii, soviet union, snow, torture, bullet wound, partisan, hanged man, death, nazi collaborationism, wounded soldier, woman director, integrity, captured, 1940s, mass hanging, fear of death, jesus christ, collaborator, belarus, christ figure, death by hanging, german invasion, war, ussr, christian allegory, tortured, public hanging, crimes against civilians, nazi collaborator, loyal vs traitor, moral values
- Director: Larisa Shepitko
- Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev





















