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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  Boris Plotnikov

  Sotnikov
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  Vladimir Gostyukhin

  Rybak
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  Anatoliy Solonitsyn

  Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
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  Lyudmila Polyakova

  Avginya Demchikha, the mother
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  Viktoriya Goldentul

  Basya Meyer, the girl
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  Sergei Yakovlev

  Petr Sych, village elder
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  Mariya Vinogradova

  Village elder's wife
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  Mykola Sektymenko

  Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
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  Leonid Yukhin

  Partisan commander
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  Vladimir Rudyy

  German officer with black glasses