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The Ascent | Rotten Tomatoes. 1977, Drama/War, 1h 51m. 100% Tomatometer 28 Reviews. 92% Audience Score 500+ Ratings. What to know. Critics Consensus. Harrowing and bleak yet ultimately uplifting,...
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- Boris Plotnikov
- Larisa Shepitko
- Tret'e Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie
Apr 2, 1977 · The Ascent: Directed by Larisa Shepitko. With Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova. Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
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- Drama, War
- Larisa Shepitko
- 1977-04-02
The Ascent (Russian: Восхождение, tr. 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.
- Восхождение
- Larisa Shepitko
- Sotnikov, by Vasil Bykaŭ
- Alfred Schnittke
The Ascent. The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit ...
- Sotnikov
Sep 15, 1994 · The Ascent: Directed by Donald Shebib. With Vincent Spano, Ben Cross, Tony Lo Bianco, Rachel Ward. A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp to climb the challenging 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and plant the Italian flag on the summit.
Jan 15, 2021 · Features. THE ASCENT Criterion Review: A Flawless Work Of Soviet Cinema. January 15, 2021. Owen Butler. Born & raised in the Chicagoland area, I've been watching… Nearly four and a half decades since its release, Larisa Shepitko’s 1977 film The Ascent remains a crowning achievement like no other.
