Movie
The Ascent
Released: April 2, 1977 (1977)
Runtime: 111 minutes
Genres: Drama, War
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Leonid Yukhin as Partisan commander
Age at release: 58
- Mariya Vinogradova as Village elder's wife
Age at release: 54
- Sergey Yakovlev as Petr Sych, village elder
Age at release: 51
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Age at release: 42
- Lyudmila Polyakova as Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Age at release: 38
- Vladimir Gostyukhin as Rybak
Age at release: 31
- Boris Plotnikov as Sotnikov
Age at release: 28
- Mykola Sektymenko as Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Age at release: 28
- Viktoriya Goldentul as Basya Meyer, the girl
Age at release: 13
- Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy as German officer
Age at release: Unknown
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- Vasili Kravtsov as German officer
Age at release: 60
- Igor Bezyaev as Soviet partisan
Age at release: 54
- Aleksandra Kharitonova as Soviet partisan with a child
Age at release: 54
- Vadym Husiev as Soviet partisan
Age at release: 52
- Sergey Yurtaykin as Cart driver
Age at release: 49
- Vladimir Rudyy as German officer with black glasses
Age at release: 36
- Mikhail Selyutin as Collaborator
Age at release: 36
- Stanislav Borodokin as Soviet partisan
Age at release: 32
- Stanislav Zhitaryov as Soviet partisan
Age at release: 31
- Galina Bulkina as Peasant woman
Age at release: 31
- Vladimir Tkalich as German officer
Age at release: 27
- Aleksandr Pyatkov as German soldier, executioner
Age at release: 26
- Anatoli Chebotaryov as German officer with glasses
Age at release: Unknown
- Gennadi Nenashev as Matyushenko, Soviet partisan
Age at release: Unknown
- V. Sokolov as Collaborationist policeman
Age at release: Unknown
- Sergei Kanishchev as Boy wearing a budenovka
Age at release: Unknown
- Dima Buranov as Child
Age at release: Unknown
- Svetlana Kulkova as Child
Age at release: Unknown
- Marina Pchelintseva as Child
Age at release: Unknown
Age at release: Unknown