The Cranes Are Flying(Movie, 1957)

Name: The Cranes Are Flying
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love, War
Released: 1957
Duration: T01:37:00
Rating: 4

Original title: "Летят журавли" (Russian/RU)

1h 37min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love, War

Rating: 4.0/5 (with 161 votes)

The Cranes Are Flying (Russian: Летят журавли, translit. Letyat zhuravli) is a 1957 Soviet film about the Second World War. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of war, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. The film was directed at Mosfilm by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and starred Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. Adapted by Viktor Rozov from his play, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the only Soviet film to win that award (In 1946, The Turning Point was one of eleven films awarded the Grand Prix, the predecessor of the Palme d'Or.) ()

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Palme d'Or

About The Cranes Are Flying

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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Additional Information

Production country: Soviet Union

Plays in: Soviet Union

Made by: Mosfilm

Original language: Russian (RU)

Spoken languages: Russian (RU)

Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/12/1957

Cast: Tatiana Samoilova, Aleksey Batalov, Valentin Zubkov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Valentina Ananina

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Screenwriter: Viktor Rozov

Director of Photography: Sergey Urusevsky

Composer: Mieczysław Weinberg

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Pasaron las grullas"

"Durnalar uçur"

"Als de ooievaars voorbijtrekken"

"Quando Voam as Cegonhas"

"Die Kraniche ziehen"

"Kured lendavad"

"Cuando pasan las cigüeñas"

"Quand passent les cigognes"

"Otan pernoun oi geranoi"

"Quando volano le cicogne"

"Sensô to teisô"

"戦争と貞操"

"학이 난다"

"Quando Passam as Cegonhas"

"Zboară cocorii"

"Letyat zhuravli"

"Летят журавли"

"Letijo žerjavi"

"Летять журавлі"

"Vuelan las grullas"

Keywords: couple, wounded, moscow, russia, air raid, battlefield, lovers, anti war, marriage of convenience, returning hero, life during wartime, bomb shelter, loveless marriage, siege, heartache

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