Larisa Shepitko
Director
The Ascent (1977)
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.
Keywords: tmdb.world-war-ii, tmdb.soviet-union, tmdb.snow, tmdb.partisan, tmdb.woman-director, tmdb.1940s, imdb.world-war-two + 45 more, imdb.nazi-occupied-soviet-union, imdb.horrors-of-war, imdb.title-directed-by-female, imdb.brand, imdb.collaboration, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.tarkovskyesque, imdb.byelorussia, imdb.soviet-military, imdb.soviet-partisan, imdb.swastika, imdb.noose, imdb.public-hanging, imdb.cold-weather, imdb.freeze, imdb.f-rated, imdb.great-patriotic-war, tmdb.integrity, imdb.partisan, imdb.execution, imdb.betrayal, imdb.torture, imdb.starvation, imdb.interrogation, imdb.winter, imdb.nazi-occupation, imdb.survival, imdb.war-crime, imdb.rifle, imdb.clothesline, imdb.sunglasses, imdb.attempted-suicide, imdb.village, imdb.religion, mdblist.fresh, aspectratio.1-37-1, tmdb.tragic, imdb.psychological-drama, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.soldier, imdb.assault, imdb.snow, imdb.corpse, imdb.forest, imdb.1940s
Watch Providers: Criterion Channel, TCM
Production Companies: Mosfilm
Country: Soviet Union
Production Country:
Soviet Union
Languages:
German,
Russian
Recommendations
Runtime: 111 min.
Released: April 2, 1977
Status: Released
Certification: TP / 11+