The Ascent

  • Drama
  • War
4/2/1977
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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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    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 the brutality of the terrain and the climate. "Sotnikov" (Boris Plotnikov) and "Rybak" (Vladimir Gostyukhin) are out foraging for food when they encounter some sheep and then themselves become the hunted as a patrol chases them to a remote farmhouse and thence conveys them to a prison. It's here that these two men must face the truly evil police investigator "Portnov" (a spine-shivering contribution from Anatoly Solonitsyn) who tries to convince...

    December 15, 2024

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