The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection
by Mikhail Kalatozov
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Actor: Aleksandr Shvorin, Aleksey Batalov, Svetlana Kharitonova, Tatyana Samojlova, Vasili MerkuryevDirector: Mikhail Kalatozov
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
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Movie Review: Pathos of the Great Patriotic War
Summary: 5 Stars
We of the West have no idea of the tragedy of what Russia calls "The Great Patriotic War." We did not suffer as they did on the scale they did. "The Cranes Are Flying" tells this sad story through the eyes of lovers as star crossed as Romeo and Juliet. Black and white imagery here has more color that a color film would have. Ansel Adams would be proud. Veronika has more humanity than all the failing world around her. This film overcomes the subtitles and expresses the humanity that suffered so greatly during that so sad era when inhumanity seemed normal. This film should be seen by everyone who wants to understand the cost of war.
Summary of The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection
Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines...and then communication stops. Meanwhile, Veronica tries to ward off spiritual numbness while Boris' draft-dodging cousin makes increasingly forceful overtures. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, The Cranes are Flying is a superbly crafted drama, bolstered by stunning cinematography and impassioned performances.Mikhail Kalatozov's luscious portrait of love and loss during World War II stars almond-eyed beauty Tatyana Samojlova and handsome Aleksei Batalov as moony-eyed young lovers whose innocent romance is shattered by war. When the idealistic boy volunteers for service, his draft-dodging cousin steals the despondent girl by brute force, yet she never gives up on her true love, even when he's reported dead. Kalatozov's patriotic paean to fallen soldiers and home-front heroes is an undeniably sentimental melodrama suffused with lush images and lyrical sequences, a kind of cinematic poetry unseen in Soviet cinema since the experimentation and optimism of the silent days. Produced during the "thaw" following Stalin's repressive reign, it won the Palme d'Or prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival and set Kalatozov on the road to more ambitious expressions of Soviet idealism in the modern world, culminating in his masterpiece, I Am Cuba. --Sean Axmaker
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