The Ascent (1977)

Original title

Восхождение

Directed by

Larisa Shepitko

Genre

drama film, war film, art film, partisan film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

TP

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 250 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two Soviet soldiers trek through a snowy winter landscape after a partisan mission goes wrong. They are captured by Nazi forces and face a choice between collaboration and death.

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What happens

The Ascent (Russian: Восхождение, romanized: 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. The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977. It was also selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was Shepitko's last film before her death in a car accident in 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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