The Ascent

The Ascent
7.8

The Ascent

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Directed by: Larisa Shepitko

Overview

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

The Ascent

Review (1)

  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)

    This starts and finishes with the same shot - a freezing cold snowscape peppered with a few telegraph poles amidst a wilderness that the Soviet population were prepared to to die to protect from the invading Nazis. Two Red Army partisans are doing their best to frustrate their enemy whilst combating...

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