CRANES ARE FLYING - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Plot: This landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. It tells the story of Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova) and Boris (Alexei Batalov), a couple who are blissfully in love until World War II tears them apart. With Boris at the front, Veronica must try to ward off spiritual numbness and defend herself from the increasingly forceful advances of her beau’s draft-dodging cousin. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, The Cranes Are Flying is a superbly crafted drama with impassioned performances and viscerally emotional, gravity-defying cinematography by Kalatozov’s regular collaborator Sergei Urusevsky.
• Cast: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Valentin Zubkov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ekaterina Kupriyanova, Valentina Ananina, Valentina Vladimirova, Olga Dzisko, Leonid Knyazev, Georgiy Kulikov, Daniil Netrebin, Aleksandr Popov, Irina Preys, Nikolay Smorchkov, Galina Stepanova, Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova, Georgiy Shamshurin, Maria Klyuchareva, Pyotr Merkurev, Anna Zarzhitskaya, Mikhail Kalatozov, Viktor Rozov, Sergey Urusevskiy, Mariya Timofeeva, Moisey Vaynberg, Kevin Adickes, Igor Mayorov
• Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Mosfilm Studios, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie