The Ascent is a 1977 Soviet film directed by Larisa Shepitko, based on Vasil Bykau's novel Sotnikov, following two Soviet partisans, Sotnikov and Rybak, sent on a foraging mission in German-occupied Belarus during the Second World War who are captured and must each decide, under torture and the threat of execution, whether to resist or collaborate. The film frames its wartime story in explicitly religious terms, casting Sotnikov's ordeal as a form of martyrdom, and was Shepitko's final completed film before her death in a car accident in 1979. It won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin International Film Festival.
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is a 1977 Soviet drama film
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The Ascent is a 1977 Soviet film directed by Larisa Shepitko, based on Vasil Bykau's novel Sotnikov, following two Soviet partisans, Sotnikov and Rybak, sent on a foraging mission in German-occupied Belarus during the Second World War who are captured and must each decide, under torture and the threat of execution, whether to resist or collaborate.
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The Ascent (Russian: Восхождение, romanized: Vosxoždenie) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm.
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The Ascent (Russian: Восхождение, romanized: Vosxoždenie) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm.
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