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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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Director
Producer
Music
Studio
Mosfilm
Original Title
Восхождение
Original Language
Russian
Keywords
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
psychological drama
public hanging
crimes against civilians
Cast
Full credits →B
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
V
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
A
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
L
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
S
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
M
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
M
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
L
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
A
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
V
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
A
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
V
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
V
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
A
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner
S
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
I
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan
S
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan
S
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisan
V
Vadim Gusev
Soviet partisan
A
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Soviet partisan with a child
