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title: "The Ascent: cast and crew"
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cast: 38
crew: 29
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# The Ascent (1977): cast and crew

38 cast and 29 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Boris Plotnikov](https://film.one/person/boris-plotnikov.md) as Sotnikov
- [Vladimir Gostyukhin](https://film.one/person/vladimir-gostyukhin.md) as Rybak
- [Anatoly Solonitsyn](https://film.one/person/anatoliy-solonitsyn.md) as Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
- [Lyudmila Polyakova](https://film.one/person/lyudmila-polyakova.md) as Avginya Demchikha, the Mother
- [Viktoriya Goldentul](https://film.one/person/viktoriya-goldentul.md) as Basya Meyer, the Girl
- [Sergei Yakovlev](https://film.one/person/sergei-yakovlev.md) as Petr Sych, Village Elder
- [Mariya Vinogradova](https://film.one/person/mariya-vinogradova.md) as Village Elder's Wife
- [Nikolay Sektimenko](https://film.one/person/mykola-sektymenko.md) as Stas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
- [Leonid Yukhin](https://film.one/person/leonid-yukhin.md) as Partisan Commander
- [Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy](https://film.one/person/aleksandr-zvenigorskiy.md) as German Officer
- [Vladimir Rudyy](https://film.one/person/vladimir-rudyy.md) as German Officer with Black Glasses
- [Anatoli Chebotaryov](https://film.one/person/anatoli-chebotaryov.md) as German Officer with Glasses
- Vasili Kravtsov as German Officer
- Vladimir Tkalich as German Officer
- Aleksandr Pyatkov as German Soldier, Executioner
- Sergey Yurtaykin as Cart Driver
- Igor Bezyaev as Soviet Partisan
- Stanislav Borodokin as Soviet Partisan
- Stanislav Zhitaryov as Soviet Partisan
- Vadim Gusev as Soviet Partisan
- Aleksandra Kharitonova as Soviet Partisan with a Child
- Gennadi Nenashev as Matyushenko, Soviet Partisan
- Galina Bulkina as Peasant Woman
- Mikhail Selyutin as Collaborator
- V. Sokolov as Collaborationist Policeman
- Sergei Kanishchev as Boy Wearing a Budenovka
- Dima Buranov as Child
- Svetlana Kulkova as Child
- Marina Pchelintseva as Child
- Vladimir Sukhorebry
- Nikolay Gagarin
- Nikolai Smirnov
- Sergey Fyodorov
- A. Gerasimov
- V. Lavrentyev
- N. Chetvergov
- A. Naumova
- Yevgeniy Markov as German Officer (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Larisa Shepitko](https://film.one/person/larisa-shepitko.md): Director
- E. Eliasova: First Assistant Director
- Evgeny Tsymbal: Second Assistant Director
- Valentina Khovanskaya: Assistant Director

## Writing

- Vasil Bykaŭ: Novel
- [Larisa Shepitko](https://film.one/person/larisa-shepitko.md): Writer
- [Yuri Klepikov](https://film.one/person/yuri-klepikov.md): Writer
- Aida Repina: Script Editor

## Production

- [Willie Geller](https://film.one/person/willie-geller.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Vladimir Chukhnov](https://film.one/person/vladimir-chukhnov.md): Director of Photography
- Eduard Shcherbakov: Camera Operator
- Yuriy Volodin: Assistant Camera
- S. Podlegaev: Assistant Camera

## Editing

- [Valeriya Belova](https://film.one/person/valeriya-belova.md): Editor
- Eleonora Praksina: Assistant Editor

## Sound and music

- [Alfred Schnittke](https://film.one/person/alfred-schnittke.md): Original Music Composer
- Yan Pototsky: Sound Director
- Yuriy Nikolayevskiy: Conductor
- Yevgeniy Bazanov: Sound Recordist
- Raisa Lukina: Music Editor

## Art

- [Yuri Raksha](https://film.one/person/yuri-raksha.md): Production Design

## Costume and make-up

- Sergey Kalinin: Makeup Artist
- [Alina Budnikova](https://film.one/person/alina-budnikova.md): Costume Design

## Visual effects

- Viktor Zhanov: VFX Director of Photography

## Lighting

- V. Zagorodnikov: Lighting Artist
- Leonid Podsukhskiy: Lighting Artist
- A. Modenov: Lighting Artist

## Crew

- V. Sumtsov: Military Consultant
- V. Bystrov: Scientific Consultant

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