The Ascent
1977-04-02
7.826
ru 109mDramaWar
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.
Director
Larisa Shepitko
Novel
Vasili Bykov
Writer
Yuri Klepikov
Writer
Larisa Shepitko
Editor
Valeriya Belova
Original Music Composer
Alfred Schnittke
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
Status
ReleasedCountries
- Soviet Union
Companies
- Mosfilm
