The Ascent (1977)

Directed by Larisa Shepitko · Cinematography by Vladimir Chukhnov

111 min61 frames

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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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