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
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Sergei Urusevsky
Producer: Mikhail Kalatozov
Editor: Mariya Timofeyeva
Writer: Viktor Rozov
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: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: 2.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
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The Cranes are Flying is an absolutely gorgeous movie, with excellent cinematography and direction, but it's very manipulative at times, often unrealistic (it's wartime in Russia but everyone seems well-fed and clothed) and the characters don't always seem fully fleshed-out--if you're interested in Russian cinema then see it but don't expect a masterpiece, photography excepted.
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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