Larisa SHEPITKO
Лариса ШЕПИТЬКО
Larissa CHEPITKO
USSR, 1976, 110mn 
Black and white, fiction
The Ascent
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Восхождение

 

 L'Ascension

 Voskhozhdenie

 
Directed by : Larisa SHEPITKO (Лариса ШЕПИТЬКО)
Writing credits : Yuri KLEPIKOV (Юрий КЛЕПИКОВ), Larisa SHEPITKO (Лариса ШЕПИТЬКО)
 
Cast
Vladimir GOSTIUKHIN (Владимир ГОСТЮХИН) ...Rybak
Boris PLOTNIKOV (Борис ПЛОТНИКОВ) ...Sotnikov
Lyudmila POLIAKOVA (Людмила ПОЛЯКОВА) ...Avginia Demcikha, la mère des trois enfants
Anatoli SOLONITSYN (Анатолий СОЛОНИЦЫН) ...Juge d’instruction de la Gestapo
Mariya VINOGRADOVA (Мария ВИНОГРАДОВА)
Sergey YAKOVLEV (Сергей ЯКОВЛЕВ) ...Le starost du village
 
Cinematography : Vladimir CHUKHNOV (Владимир ЧУХНОВ), Pavel LEBESHEV (Павел ЛЕБЕШЕВ)
Production design : Yuri RAKSHA (Юрий РАКША)
Music : Alfred SHNITKE (Альфред ШНИТКЕ)
Sound : Yan POTOTSKY (Ян ПОТОЦКИЙ)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 02/04/1977
 

Awards :
Golden bear Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1977
FIPRESCI Prize Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1977
Prix du meilleur film et prix de l'Union des cinéastes au Festival l’Union soviétique, 1977

DVD with subtitles
Editor : The Criterion Collection.
Collection Eclipse Series
English subtitles
Editor : Potemkine. 2017. Titre : Coffret Larissa Chepitko - Elem Klimov.
Ce coffret contient 5 films :
- Bienvenue, ou Accès interdit aux personnes non autorisées
- Raspoutine, l'agonie (URSS 1974, 152')
- Les Ailes (URSS 1966, 103')
- L'Ascension (URSS 1976, 110')
- Les Adieux à Matiora

Plot synopsis
Based on Vasil Bykov’s story «Sotnikov». Belorussia is occupied by the fascists. Officer Sotnikov and private Rybak come to the village from the forest to gain food for guerillas. The Germans run down them. The physically weak Sotnikov sustainesd tortures and fearlessly goes for execution. Meanwhile Rybak appeales for mercy and becomes a policeman.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les récompenses internationales les plus prestigieuses obtenues par des films soviétiques et russes, Nikolaï KORNATSKI, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Larissa Chepitko – L’Ascension, Hugo JORDAN, culturopoing.com, 2022
Silence ! Elles tournent. Larissa Chepitko, élégie soviétique., Joël CHAPRON, Esther BREJON, revusetcorriges.com, 2022
L’Ascension, de Larissa Shepitko : transcender l’horreur de la guerre, Herve AUBERT, lemagducine.fr, 2021
Klimov + Chépitko, Françoise NAVAILH, Kinoglaz.fr, 2017
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2024
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2021
- L'Etrange Festival, Paris (France), 2019
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2018
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2018
- Journées cinématographiques, Saint Denis (France), 2016
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2015
- Institut Lumière - Hommage à Larissa Chepitko, Lyon (France), 2015
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2013
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2011
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2010
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2010
- Paris Russian Film Festival, Paris (France), 2010
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2010
- Telluride Film Festival, Telluride (Colorado) (USA), 2010
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1990
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1977

Photos and videos
 


Film avec sous-titrs anglais


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