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*CompleteMonster: [[SatanicArchetype Pavel Portnov]], a police investigator in Nazi-occupied Belarus, is a former Bolshevik who chose to [[LesCollaborateurs join his oppressors]]. In charge of [[TortureTechnician torturing]] suspected dissidents to crush any sign of resistance, Portnov is all but stated to have raped a girl as part of his "interrogation" before having her executed along with a mother of three young children, condemning the children to starve to death.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack by Alfred Schnittke is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Much more well known than the novella it's based on, especially in the West.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Sotnikov gets a few due to his sheer, unbending defiance in the face of the Nazis.
** The [[GrandInquisitorScene interrogation scene]]. Sotnikov refuses to sell out his comrades, contemptuously rejects Portnov's attempt at a BreakingSpeech, and calls Portnov "human scum" to his face. Portnov has a TortureTechnician come in and brand him, and even though he passes out from the pain he doesn't crack, and as soon as he wakes up he fixes Portnov with such a brutal DeathGlare that Portnov can't look him in the eye and orders him to be taken away.
** Later, Sotnikov makes one last ditch attempt to save the lives of the other prisoners by [[TakeMeInstead offering himself up to be executed]] while absolving them. Portnov is unmoved by his plea, but Sotnikov does get the chance to tell him "[[DyingDeclarationOfHate I wish I killed more of you bastards]]" before he's hauled off to the gallows.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
* HoYay: There's quite a bit of physical affection between the male leads, mostly on Rybak's end. To be fair, most of it is in the context of Rybak trying to keep Sotnikov from freezing or bleeding to death with what little means he has.
* SignatureScene: Sotnikov's suicide attempt in the snow near the beginning of the film. It's on the cover for the Creator/CriterionCollection version of the film, and is one of the first things that comes up if you Google the film.
* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/ComeAndSee'', another Soviet war film focusing on Belarusian partisans. While ''Come and See'' is a brutal, uncompromising portrayal of the absolute worst crimes of the Nazi occupation shown through the eyes of a ChildSoldier, ''The Ascent'' is a slower, subtler, more spiritual film showing the personal ordeal of two older enlisted men. Elem Klimov, the director of ''Come and See'', was in fact married to Creator/LarisaShepitko at the time this film was made, and doubtlessly drew great inspiration from it.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demchikha, Basya, and the headman at the end.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Sotnikov gets a few due to his sheer, unbending defiance in the face of the Nazis.
** The [[GrandInquisitorScene interrogation scene]]. Sotnikov refuses to sell out his comrades, contemptuously rejects Portnov's attempt at a BreakingSpeech, and calls Portnov "human scum" to his face. Portnov has a TortureTechnician come in and brand him, and even though he passes out from the pain he doesn't crack, and as soon as he wakes up he fixes Portnov with such a brutal DeathGlare that Portnov can't look him in the eye and orders him to be taken away.
** Later, Sotnikov makes one last ditch attempt to save the lives of the other prisoners by [[TakeMeInstead offering himself up to be executed]] while absolving them. Portnov is unmoved by his plea, but Sotnikov does get the chance to tell him "[[DyingDeclarationOfHate I wish I killed more of you bastards]]" before he's hauled off to the gallows.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
* HoYay: There's quite a bit of physical affection between the male leads, mostly on Rybak's end. To be fair, most of it is in the context of Rybak trying to keep Sotnikov from freezing or bleeding to death with what little means he has.
* SignatureScene: Sotnikov's suicide attempt in the snow near the beginning of the film. It's on the cover for the Creator/CriterionCollection version of the film, and is one of the first things that comes up if you Google the film.
* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/ComeAndSee'', another Soviet war film focusing on Belarusian partisans. While ''Come and See'' is a brutal, uncompromising portrayal of the absolute worst crimes of the Nazi occupation shown through the eyes of a ChildSoldier, ''The Ascent'' is a slower, subtler, more spiritual film showing the personal ordeal of two older enlisted men. Elem Klimov, the director of ''Come and See'', was in fact married to Creator/LarisaShepitko at the time this film was made, and doubtlessly drew great inspiration from it.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demchikha, Basya, and the headman at the end.
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