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The Ascent(1977)

7.8(246)
1h 49m
1977-04-02

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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Top Cast

Boris Plotnikov
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Keywords

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