The Ascent
1977-04-02During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

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.

Sotnikov
Boris Plotnikov

Rybak
Vladimir Gostyukhin

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Lyudmila Polyakova

Basya Meyer, the girl
Viktoriya Goldentul

Petr Sych, village elder
Sergei Yakovlev

Village elder's wife
Mariya Vinogradova

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Mykola Sektymenko

Partisan commander
Leonid Yukhin
German officer
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

German officer with black glasses
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with glasses
Anatoli Chebotaryov

German officer
Vasili Kravtsov

German officer
Vladimir Tkalich

German soldier, executioner
Aleksandr Pyatkov

Cart driver
Sergey Yurtaykin

Soviet partisan
Igor Bezyaev

Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin

Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisan
Vadym Husiev

Soviet partisan with a child
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Matyushenko, Soviet partisan
Gennadi Nenashev

Peasant woman
Galina Bulkina

Collaborator
Mikhail Selyutin
Collaborationist policeman
V. Sokolov
Boy wearing a budenovka
Sergei Kanishchev
Child
Dima Buranov
Child
Svetlana Kulkova
Child
Marina Pchelintseva
Vladimir Sukhorebry

Nikolay Gagarin

Nikolai Smirnov

Sergey Fyodorov
A. Gerasimov
V. Lavrentyev
N. Chetvergov
A. Naumova

German officer (uncredited)
Yevgeniy Markov