The Ascent | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE

★ Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival (1977)

Two partisans sent out of the forest for food are captured in occupied Belarus, and the film becomes a study of how two men answer the same offer of survival. Larisa Shepitko stages the interrogation and its aftermath as something close to a religious trial.

Why it's free: Free on Mosfilm's own channel; Mosfilm holds the rights to the Soviet-era library it publishes.