Facing Death, Confronting Human Nature: The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977) Larisa Shepitko’s black-and-white feature film Voskhozhdeniye ( The Ascent, 1977) is based on the 1970 novella Sotnikov by the Belarussian writer Vasil Bykov. Set in Nazi-occupied Belarus during World War II, The Ascent follows two Soviet partisans who brave harsh winter landscapes in search of food to sustain their fellow escapees. The soldiers’ perilous journey, however, leads to a series of fateful encounters, including their capture, interrogation, and torture by Nazi soldiers and collaborators. As the narrative unfolds, complex moral and existential dilemmas arise. The young and sickly Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) and the physically stronger, experienced soldier Rybak (Vladimir Gostyukhin) are ultimately forced to choose between life and death, as survival will only become possible by betrayal. While Shepitko focuses on the extreme physical and psychological experiences of war, the film raises questions that interrogate human nature more broadly.

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The Ascent marks the highpoint of the Ukrainian-born filmmaker’s career, securing her critical acclaim both in the Soviet Union and abroad. Despite limited distribution in Soviet cinemas, the film was positively reviewed in major Soviet film magazines and was generally well received by state officials.

Moreover, The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin International Film Festival, after which Shepitko showed the work at film festivals in Telluride and Toronto, and even returned to the Berlinale in 1978 as a member of the international jury. Ncx 2000 xp serial numbers. Even though The Ascent and Shepitko’s other masterly films have since been praised by critics and scholars in both the East and the West, they remain far less known and exhibited than those of her contemporaries at the VGIK film school in Moscow – Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, and her husband Elem Klimov. Like many female filmmakers’, Shepitko’s contribution to the history of cinema has often been downplayed or overlooked, but her extraordinary talent and the significance of her work have recently begun to receive greater recognition. Writing in 2014, for example, David C. Gillespie, declared The Ascent to be “perhaps the most important war film of the 1970s and one of the key films of the entire Brezhnev period.” With Brezhnev’s rise to power in 1964, a long period of cultural stagnation began, defined by a return to strict censorship and creative limitations that had been alleviated under Nikita Khrushchev.

Khrushchev’s Thaw had allowed filmmakers, for the first time, to move away from heroic propaganda narratives about the Great Patriotic War and to explore more personal and unsettling aspects of the war. Despite the shifting political and cultural landscape under Brezhnev, which saw for example Yuri Ozerov’s epic five-part war film series Osvobozhdenie ( Liberation, 1971), The Ascent aligns itself with this earlier line of investigation into the psychological dimension of personal struggle and suffering in war rather than of its battles.