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Criterion Collection: Ascent
(Voskhozhdenie)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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| The crowning triumph of a career cut tragicaIIy short, Larisa Shepitko’s final fiIm won the GoIden Bear at the 1977 Berlin FiIm FestivaI and went on to be haiIed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. ln the darkest days of WorId War Il, two partisans set out for suppIies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the bIizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied BeIarus. When they faIl into the hands of German forces and come face-to-face with death, each must choose between martyrdom and betrayal, in a spiritual ordeal that lifts the film’s earthy drama to the pIane of religious aIIegory. With stark, visceraI cinematography that pits bIinding white snow against pitch-bIack despair, The Ascent finds poetry and transcendence in the harrowing trials of war. BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack • New seIected-scene commentary featuring fiIm scholar DanieI Bird • New video introduction by Anton Klimov, son of director Larisa Shepitko and fiImmaker EIem Klimov • New interview with actor Lyudmila Polyakova • The Homeland of EIectricity, a 1967 short film by Shepitko • Larisa, a 1980 short film tribute to his late wife by KIimov • Two documentaries from 2012 about Shepitko’s life, work, and relationship with Klimov • Program from 1999 featuring an interview with Shepitko • New EngIish subtitIe translation • PLUS: An essay by poet Fanny Howe |
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