The Ascent

About 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.

The Ascent (1977) is a war film directed by Larisa Shepitko. Released in April 1977, it runs 110 minutes.

Boris Plotnikov stars as Sotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin as Rybak, Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator, and Lyudmila Polyakova as Avginya Demchikha, the Mother. Written by Larisa Shepitko and Yuri Klepikov. It is adapted from a novel.

Members will find winter, snow, psychological drama, and soviet union in it. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

War for the Planet of the Apes, Enemy at the Gates, and Army of Shadows make useful companions to The Ascent, all filed under death and torture. It scores 7.9 out of 10 from 265 TMDB voters.