The Film
The Ascent
The Story
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.
moral values loyal vs traitor nazi collaborator crimes against civilians public hanging tortured christian allegory ussr war german invasion death by hanging christ figure belarus collaborator jesus christ fear of death mass hanging somber 1940s captured integrity woman director wounded soldier nazi collaborationism death hanged man partisan bullet wound torture snow soviet union world war ii winter based on novel or book
Runtime
109 min
Released Apr 1977
Gallery
The Stills.
