The Ascent

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.

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  Larisa Shepitko
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  E. Eliasova
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  Evgeny Tsymbal
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  Valentina Khovanskaya

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  Boris Plotnikov
  Борис Андреевич Сотников
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  Vladimir Gostyukhin
  Коля Рыбак
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  Sergey Yakovlev
  Пётр Сыч, староста
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  Lyudmila Polyakova
  Авгинья Демчиха
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  Viktoriya Goldentul
  Бася
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  Sergei Yakovlev
  Petr Sych, village elder
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  Anatoliy Solonitsyn
  Павел Гаврилович Портнов, следователь у фашистов
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  Mariya Vinogradova
  старостиха
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  Nikolai Sektimenko
  Стась Гоменюк, полицай
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  Mykola Sektymenko
  Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
• 
  Leonid Yukhin
  командир партизанского отряда
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  Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
  немецкий офицер
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  Vladimir Rudyy
  German officer with black glasses
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  Anatoli Chebotaryov
  German officer with glasses
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  Vasili Kravtsov
  German officer
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  Vladimir Tkalich
  German officer
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  Aleksandr Pyatkov
  German soldier, executioner
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  Sergey Yurtaykin
  Cart driver
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  Igor Bezyaev
  Soviet partisan
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  Stanislav Borodokin
  Soviet partisan
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  Stanislav Zhitaryov
  Soviet partisan
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  Vadim Gusev
  Soviet partisan