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The Ascent (Blu-ray) (Criterion)

The Ascent (Blu-ray) (Criterion)

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Original title: The Ascent

Genre: Drama, War, Cinema Of The Soviet Union

Year: 1977

Production country: USSR

Runtime: 106 min. / 01:46

Media: BD-50

Number of disks: 1

Region: B

Occupied Belarus, winter 1942. Partisans - soldier Rybak and officer Sotnikov go in search of food for the partisan detachment. After a clash with the police, they hide in the village, but after some time they are overtaken by punitive forces. Interrogations, torture, fear... The search for a way out, a compromise, a deal with conscience leads one of the film's heroes to betrayal.

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Audio & Subtitles

Audio:
 Russian LPCM Mono

Subtitles:
English

Extras:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New selected-scene commentary featuring film scholar Daniel Bird
• New video introduction by Anton Klimov, son of director Larisa Shepitko and filmmaker Elem Klimov
• New interview with actor Lyudmila Polyakova
• The Homeland of Electricity, a 1967 short film by Shepitko Larisa, a 1980 short film tribute to his late wife by Klimov
• Two documentaries from 2012 about Shepitko's life, work, and relationship with Klimov
• Program from 1999 featuring an interview with Shepitko
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by poet Fanny Howe

Director & Cast

Director: Larisa Shepitko

Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Victoria Goldentul, Maria Vinogradova, Nikolay Sektimenko, Sergey Kanishchev, Vladimir Laptev

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