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The Ascent (1977) is streaming on Criterion Channel. Also available to rent on Apple TV+.
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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.
Bitter frost and blinding white landscapes swallow the screen, turning a snowy partisan mission into a spiritual furnace. The crushing weight of the subzero silence forces a brutal confrontation between physical survival and the preservation of the human soul.
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Larisa Shepitko
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Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev, Mariya Vinogradova, Mykola Sektymenko, Leonid Yukhin, Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
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The Ascent
You can stream The Ascent (1977) on Criterion Channel with a subscription, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
Larisa Shepitko
Cast
Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev, Mariya Vinogradova, Mykola Sektymenko, Leonid Yukhin, Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
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