The Ascent

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Play Time: 111 mins
Drama, War
The Ascent

Overview:
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

Original Title:Восхождение
Status: Released (1977-04-02)
Awards:4 wins total
Screen:Vasiliy Bykov, Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
Productions: Mosfilm, Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie
Production Countries: Soviet Union
Spoken Languages: Deutsch, Pусский
The Ascent

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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 ....

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