Director: Larisa Shepitko
Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul,
Plot: 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.
Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent (1977): Criterion Blu-ray review
Criterion upgrade their bare-bones edition of Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent (1977) with an extras-packed Blu-ray restoration of this starkly beautiful war film which moves from visceral realism into religious […]