The Ascent

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

Sergey Yakovlev

Village Elder

Lyudmila Polyakova

Demchikha

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, the Nazi Interrogator

Mariya Vinogradova

Village Elder's Wife

Nikolai Sektimenko

Stas'

Anatoli Chebotaryov

Aleksandra Kharitonova

Sergei Kanishchev

Boy wearing Budenovka (as Serezha Kanishchev)

Vasili Kravtsov

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Sotnikov (voice)

Mikhail Selyutin

Leonid Yukhin

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

Vladimir Rudyy

nemetskiy ofitser v chornykh ochkakh

Sergey Fyodorov