The Ascent

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

Sergei Yakovlev

Petr Sych, village elder

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

Leonid Yukhin

Partisan commander

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

German officer

Vladimir Rudyy

German officer with black glasses

Anatoli Chebotaryov

German officer with glasses

Vasili Kravtsov

German officer

Vladimir Tkalich

German officer

Aleksandr Pyatkov

German soldier, executioner

Sergey Yurtaykin

Cart driver

Igor Bezyaev

Soviet partisan

Stanislav Borodokin

Soviet partisan

Larisa Shepitko

Director, Writer

Yuri Klepikov

Writer

Alfred Schnittke

Original Music Composer

Valeriya Belova

Editor

Vladimir Chukhnov

Director of Photography

Willie Geller

Producer