Edition no. 1063
The Criterion Collection 2021 DVD
Eclipse from the Criterion Collection 2008 DVD (USA) The Criterion Collection 2021 DVD (USA) The Criterion Collection 2021 Blu-ray (USA)
Release Date: January 26 2021
Country of Release: USA
Directed by: Larisa Shepitko
Featuring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Victoria Goldentul, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolay Sektimenko
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus. When they fall 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 plane of religious allegory. With stark, visceral cinematography that pits blinding white snow against pitch-black despair, The Ascent finds poetry and transcendence in the harrowing trials of war.
Audio: Russian 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Discs: 2 Discs | DVD-9
New selected-scene commentary featuring film scholar Daniel Bird
New video introduction by Anton Klimov, son of director Larisa Shepitko and filmmaker Elem Klimov
New interview with actor Lyudmila Polyakova
The Homeland of Electricity, a 1967 short film by Shepitko
Larisa, a 1980 short film tribute to his late wife by Klimo
Two documentaries from 2012 about Shepitko's life, work, and relationship with Klimov
Program from 1999 featuring an interview with Larisa Shepitko
An essay by poet Fanny Howe
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