Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Golden Bear (1977)
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (1978)
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Setting
Set in Belarus
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Music
Music by Alfred Schnittke
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Pavel Lebeshev and Vladimir Chukhnov
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Vasili BykovNovel
- Larisa ShepitkoWriter
- Yuri KlepikovWriter
- Original title
- Восхождение
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 2, 1977
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
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Cast
Boris PlotnikovSotnikov
Vladimir GostyukhinRybak
Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the Mother
Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the Girl
Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, Village Elder
Mariya VinogradovaVillage Elder's Wife
Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
Leonid YukhinPartisan Commander- Aleksandr ZvenigorskiyGerman Officer
Vladimir RudyyGerman Officer with Black Glasses- Anatoli ChebotaryovGerman Officer with Glasses
Vasili KravtsovGerman Officer
Vladimir TkalichGerman Officer
Aleksandr PyatkovGerman Soldier, Executioner
Sergey YurtaykinCart Driver
Igor BezyaevSoviet Partisan
Stanislav BorodokinSoviet Partisan
Stanislav ZhitaryovSoviet Partisan- Vadim GusevSoviet Partisan
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