The Ascent (1977)★ 8.2/10

SUHH · 111 min · January 1, 1977

• Drama
• War

Directed by: Larisa Shepitko

Written by: Vasiliy Bykov, Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.