The Ascent (1977)
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.
Keywords
1940s
based on novel or book
belarus
bullet wound
captured
christ figure
christian allegory
collaborator
crimes against civilians
death
death by hanging
fear of death
german invasion
hanged man
integrity
jesus christ
loyal vs traitor
mass hanging
moral values
nazi collaborationism
nazi collaborator
partisan
public hanging
snow
somber
soviet union
torture
tortured
ussr
war