The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Plot.
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
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Cast & Crew.
Tatyana Samoylova
Veronika
Aleksey Batalov
Boris Fyodorovich Borozdin
Vasili Merkuryev
Fyodor Ivanovich Borozdin
Aleksandr Shvorin
Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin
Svetlana Kharitonova
Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina
Konstantin Kadochnikov
Volodya
Valentin Zubkov
Stepan
Antonina Bogdanova
Varvara Kapitanova, Boris and Irina's Grandmother
Boris Kokovkin
Nikolay Nikolayevich Chernov
Ekaterina Kupriyanova
Anna Mikhaylovna Lebedeva
Valentina Ananina
Lyuba
Valentina Vladimirova
Woman Soldier
Olga Dzisko
Dasha
Leonid Knyazev
Sachkov
Georgiy Kulikov
Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin
Daniil Netrebin
Wounded Man
Aleksandr Popov
Borya
Irina Preis
Antonina Nikolayevna Monastyrskaya
Yevgeni Svidetelev
ProductionDesigner
Nikolay Smorchkov
Zakharov
Galina Stepanova
Veronika's Mother
Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova
Guest at Party
Georgiy Shamshurin
Aleksey, Veronika's Father
Leonid Alekseyev
Old Man (uncredited)
Valentina Berezutskaya
Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)
Maya Bulgakova
Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
Lidiya Vinogradova
Woman Soldier (uncredited)
Lidiya Genel-Ablova
Old Woman (uncredited)
Aleksandr Degtyar
Soldier with Child (uncredited)
Anatoliy Dudorov
Military Man (uncredited)
Tamara Evgeneva-Ivanova
Guest at Party (uncredited)
Ivan Zalesskiy
(uncredited)
Anna Zargitckaia
Palyukaitis (uncredited)
Maria Klyuchareva
Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
Yuri Komissarov
Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
(uncredited)
Yevgeniya Lyzhina
(uncredited)
Alevtina Rumyantseva
Young Woman (uncredited)
Mikhail Semenikhin
Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Lyubov Sokolova
Woman Soldier (uncredited)
Lyubov Studneva
Stepan's Mother (uncredited)
Vasiliy Fushchich
Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Vasiliy Tsygankov
Soldier (uncredited)
Yevgeni Kudryashov
Guest at party (uncredited)
Mikhail Kalatozov
Director / Producer
Viktor Rozov
Writer
Nikolay Olonovskiy
Camera Operator
Yevgeni Svidetelev
Production Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 12, 1957
Original NameЛетят журавли
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Cranes Are Flying (Russian: Летят журавли, translit. Letyat zhuravli) is a 1957 Soviet war drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm, written by Viktor Rozov, and starring Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. It depicts the cruelty and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of the Second World War, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War.
The film had a profound impact on Soviet cinema, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the only Soviet film to win that award.
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