The Ascent (1977)
Director: Larisa Shepitko
Actors: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Boris Plotnikov, Lyudmila Polyakova, Sergey Yakovlev, Viktoriya Goldentul, Vladimir Gostyukhin
Country: Soviet Union
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