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A Balasaur Score of 86 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%. Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 97% of the 1,110 1970s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
256 audience votes
Key crew
- Larisa ShepitkoWriter
- Alfred SchnittkeOriginal Music Composer
- Larisa ShepitkoDirector
- Yuri KlepikovWriter
Cast
- Boris PlotnikovSotnikov
- Vladimir GostyukhinRybak
- Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, collaborationist interrogator
- Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the mother
- Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the girl
- Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, village elder
- Mariya VinogradovaVillage elder's wife
- Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
- Leonid YukhinPartisan commander
- Aleksandr ZvenigorskiyGerman officer
- Vladimir RudyyGerman officer with black glasses
- Anatoli ChebotaryovGerman officer with glasses
Stills
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1970
Shares: War Drama · Military · 1970s
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Themes
based on novel or bookwinterworld war iisoviet unionsnowtorturebullet woundpartisanhanged mandeathnazi collaborationismwounded soldier
The Best Movies of 1977
The Ascent is #3 of 60
