The Ascent [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Larisa Shepitko Larisa Shepitko

Overview

The award-winning young director of this unusual wartime drama died shortly after beginning work on her next film. Voskhozhdeniye, which won the Grand Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, is Larissa Shepitko's last complete work. As the film progresses, the inner lives and states of the protagonists emerge as the compelling focus of the drama. Two partisans resisting German incursions into Byelorussia during World War II are separated from their fleeing comrades and are captured by the Germans. Along with a number of local villagers, they are sentenced to die. One of them dies with such overwhelming dignity, such grace, that no one present is unmoved, and the flame of resistance is successfully transferred to several of those who observe his death. This spiritual giant of a man also outfaces a despicable Russian schoolteacher from the area, who is an active collaborator with the Germans.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/26/2021
UPC:	0715515254618
Original Release:	1976
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Language:	English
Time:	1:49:00
Sales rank:	11,356

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Boris Plotnikov	Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin	Rybak
Ludmilla Poliakova	Demchikha
Sergey Yakovlev	Village Elder
Mariya Vinogradova	Village Elder's Wife
Lyudmila Polyakova	Actor
Anatoliy Solonitsyn	Actor
Nikolai Sektimenko	Actor
Viktoriya Goldentul	Actor

Technical Credits

Larisa Shepitko

Yuri Klepikov

Larisa Shepitko	Director,Screenwriter
Villi Geler	Producer
Yuri Klepikov	Screenwriter