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The Ascent (Russian: Восхождение, tr. Voskhozhdeniye) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. Shepitko and Yuri Klepikov's screenplay was adapted from the 1970 novel Sotnikov by Vasil Bykaŭ. The film was shot in black-and-white in January 1974 near Murom, Russia, in appalling winter conditions.
Apr 2, 1977 · The Ascent: Directed by Larisa Shepitko. With Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova. Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
The Ascent. The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late Soviet cinema.
Apr 29, 2022 · Russian; German. The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late Soviet cinema.
Jan 7, 2022 · Two Soviet soldiers leave their starving unit to search a nearby farm for supplies. When they see the Germans have reached it first, they have to retreat deep into enemy territory (Rotten Tomatoes...
Shot on location in a brutal winter hellscape, The Ascent is both the last film and the masterpiece of Soviet director Larisa Shepitko; a biting depiction of the soul-searching and the crisis...
Set in World War II, THE ASCENT—widely regarded as Shepitko’s masterpiece, and winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival—follows two Soviet soldiers who are navigating the blindingly snow-covered Belarusian countryside to find food when they are captured by Nazis.
