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• Vicky's rating of the film The Ascent

  Vicky

  Surely a perfect film? To me anyway. I'm deeply in awe of Shepitko's mastery of the camera. Such an amazing and emotionally rousing use of visual and musical crescendo. Not to mention the powerful and subtle allegory to the telling of Jesus Christ.

  October 09, 2012 23:12

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• Trolley Freak's rating of the film The Ascent

  Trolley Freak

  Shepitko's final film before her tragic death is a gruelling and overpowering account of courage and cowardice, steeped in religious symbolism and set in the icy wastes of World War II Byelorussia. The film follows two Soviet partisans, separated from their comrades and searching for food, who are eventually captured by the German invaders and must face their fate. A masterpiece so powerful it will haunt me forever..

  August 02, 2012 20:19

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• Graveyard Poet's rating of the film The Ascent

  Graveyard Poet

  Set in perhaps the bleakest wintry landscape in the history of cinema, this is a harrowing, haunting, and heart-wrenching exploration of war, impending death, and the meaning of conscience. Stunningly powerful and overwhelmingly intense experience--left me speechless.

  January 18, 2012 02:34

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• TFCHooligan69's rating of the film The Ascent

  TFCHooligan69

  Breathtaking. Devastating.

  January 14, 2012 09:27

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• Giuseppe R.'s rating of the film The Ascent

  Giuseppe R.

  Bresson, Dreyer, Tarkovsky and... Shepitko! Let's don't forget her! "The Ascent" is one of the most powerful and spiritual movies I've ever seen in my life.

  February 04, 2011 16:09

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• Lorna Singh's rating of the film The Ascent

  Lorna Singh

  One of the most powerful war films ever,yet only concerning the harrowing ordeal of two soldiers. The scene with the Russian Nazi investigator and the captured Sotnikov is acting at its most brilliant. Amazing cinematography.

  August 22, 2013 00:32

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• Ciprian David's rating of the film The Ascent

  Ciprian David

  wow, still have to pull myself together!

  January 15, 2013 23:01

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• xrystyna's rating of the film The Ascent

  xrystyna

  one of the best movie openings i've seen. amazing camerawork. very powerful film, definitely. however moralistic dostoyevsky-style and christian overtones were slightly too prominent for my liking.

  December 11, 2011 14:03

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