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.
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Boris Plotnikov | Boris Sotnikov |
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Vladimir Gostyukhin | Nikolay Rybak |
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Sergey Yakovlev | Pyotr Sych - Village elder |
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Lyudmila Polyakova | Avginya Demchikha |
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Viktoriya Goldentul | Basya |
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Anatoliy Solonitsyn | Pavel Portnov - the Nazi interrogator |
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Mariya Vinogradova | Village elder's wife |
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Nikolai Sektimenko | Stas' Gamanyuk |
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A. Chebotaryov | German officer with glasses |
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Sergei Kanishchev | Boy wearing Budyonovka |
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Vasili Kravtsov | German officer |
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Mikhail Selyutin | Fascist collaborator |
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V. Sokolov | Politzai |
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Leonid Yukhin | Partisan detachment commander |
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Aleksandr Zvenigorsky | German officer |
| Director | Larisa Shepitko |
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| Writer | Vasiliy Bykov, Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko | |
| Musician | Alfred Shnitke | |
| Photography | Vladimir Chukhnov, Pavel Lebeshev | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Quantity | 1 |
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| Index | 2522 |
| Added Date | Apr 13, 2022 20:52:32 |
| Modified Date | Jun 23, 2023 22:18:37 |
Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko
The career of Larisa Shepitko, an icon of sixties and seventies Soviet cinema, was tragically cut short when she was killed in a car crash at age forty, just as she was emerging on the international scene. The body of work she left behind, though small, is masterful, and her genius for visually evoking characters' interior worlds is never more striking than in her two greatest works: Wings, an intimate yet exhilarating portrait of a female fighter pilot turned provincial headmistress, and The Ascent, a gripping, tragic wartime parable of betrayal and martyrdom. A true artist who had deftly used the Soviet film industry to make statements both personal and universal, Shepitko remains one of the greatest unsung filmmakers of all time.
The Ascent
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belorussia. When they fall into the hands of German forces and come face-to-face with death, each must choose between martyrdom and betrayal, in a spiritual ordeal that lifts the film’s earthy drama to the plane of religious allegory. With stark, visceral cinematography that pits blinding white snow against pitch-black despair, The Ascent finds poetry and transcendence in the harrowing trials of war.
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