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Jan 7, 2022 · The Ascent (1977), by Larisa Shepitko (With English Subtitles). Two Soviet soldiers leave their starving unit to search a nearby farm for supplies. When they see the Germans have reached it first...
- 109 min
- 26.9K
- Gianluca Fantoni
The Ascent ( Russian: Восхождение, tr. Voskhozhdeniye) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. Shepitko and Yuri Klepikov 's screenplay was adapted from the 1970 novel Sotnikov by Vasil Bykaŭ. The film was shot in black-and-white in January 1974 near Murom, Russia, in appalling winter conditions.
Shot on location in a brutal winter hellscape, The Ascent is both the last film and the masterpiece of Soviet director Larisa Shepitko; a biting depiction of the soul-searching and the crisis...
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- Boris Plotnikov
- Larisa Shepitko
- Drama, War
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The Ascent takes place during the Second World War and follows two Soviet partisans ( Boris Plotnikov and Vladimir Gostyukhin) who, while attempting to gather supplies from nearby Belarusian villages, are captured and imprisoned by German soldiers.
The Ascent. The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko 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.
Apr 2, 1977 · The Ascent: Directed by Larisa Shepitko. With Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova. Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
