![]() Screenplay įor the most part the screenplay written by Yuri Klepikov follows the novel. Every day she was haunted by the possibility of death reading the novel Sotnikov by Vasil Býkaŭ during this period helped Shepitko express this state on the silver screen. The situation was also aggravated by the fact that she was pregnant, but she felt that during her pregnancy she came to understand the complexities of life more fully. For a few weeks Shepitko was confined to bed. By her own admission, for a period of four months the director was in "a monstrous mental and physical exhaustion." The realization of what was subsequently necessary came to her suddenly while she was recuperating at a Sochi sanatorium, but her creative plans were undermined by a disastrous fall, which resulted in a serious concussion and a spinal injury. įor Shepitko it was a difficult time after the film's release. Despite the fact that the film was one of the prize winners at the Venice Film Festival, the removed scenes were a terrible blow to Shepitko, who believed that changing an important moment leads to the loss of main ideas. ![]() The release of the film was not any easier the censors deleted critical scenes and Shepitko had to fight for every single one of them. Technical and organizational difficulties led to the necessity of calling an ambulance for the director's health. Production took place under an atmosphere of severe stress. I could not find any other material with which I could transmit my views on life, on the meaning of life.īefore The Ascent, the director Larisa Shepitko shot the film You and Me. If I had not shot this picture it would have been a catastrophe for me. Production Pre-production Īll motion pictures are personal but the desire to film The Ascent was almost a physical need. Maria Vinogradova as Village elder's wife.Anatoli Solonitsyn as Portnov, the collaborationist interrogator.Rybak stares out the open door and begins to laugh and weep. The policeman tells him that their commander wants him and leaves him alone in the courtyard. A fellow policeman calls for Rybak until Rybak opens the door. Realizing what he has done, he tries to hang himself in the outhouse with his belt, but fails. ![]() Sotnikov and the others are executed.Īs he heads back to the camp with his new comrades, Rybak is vilified by the villagers. Rybak accepts Portnov's offer and the Germans let him join the police. The next morning, all are led out to be hanged. The headman, now suspected of supporting the partisans, and Basya Meyer, the teen daughter of a Jewish shoemaker, are imprisoned in the same cellar for the night. However, Rybak tells as much as he thinks the police already know, hoping to live so he can escape later. When Sotnikov refuses to answer Portnov's questions, he is brutally tortured by members of the collaborationist police, but gives up no information. Sotnikov is interrogated first by local collaborator Portnov ( Anatoli Solonitsyn), a former Soviet club-house director and children's choirmaster who became the local head of the Belarusian Auxiliary Police, loyal to the Germans. The two men and a sobbing Demchikha are taken to the German headquarters. However, they are discovered and captured. Rybak ( Vladimir Gostyukhin) has to take him to the nearest shelter, the home of Demchikha ( Lyudmila Polyakova), the mother of three young children. After a protracted gunfight in the snow in which one of the Germans is killed, the two men get away, but Sotnikov ( Boris Plotnikov) is shot in the leg. After taking a farm animal from the collaborationist headman (Sergei Yakovlev), they head back to their unit, but are spotted by a German patrol. Plot ĭuring the Great Patriotic War ( World War II), two Soviet partisans go to a Belarusian village in search of food. It was also selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film won the Golden Bear award at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977. It was Shepitko's last film before her death in a car accident in 1979. The film was shot in January 1974 near Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, in appalling winter conditions, as required by the script, based on the novel Sotnikov by Vasil Bykaŭ. Voskhozhdeniye, literally - The Ascension) is a 1977 black-and-white Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm.
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