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The cranes are flying [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Mikhail Kalatozov.

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Criterion Collection, 2020.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Drama.

Russian drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Soviet Union -- History -- 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 146.

Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)

9780780025684 (2002 Classic Collection ed.)

Alternate title:

Letyat zhuravli [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (96 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

Based on the play "Vechno zhivye" by Viktor Rozov.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

DVD Special edition features (2020 ed.): New 2K digital restoration ; new interview with scholar Ian Christie on why the film is a landmark of Soviet cinema; audio interview from 1961 with director Mikhail Kalatozov ; Hurricane Kalatozov, a documentary from 2009 on the Georgian director's complex relationship with the Soviet government ; segment from a 2008 program about the film's cinematography, featuring original storyboards and an interview with actor Alexei Batalov ; interview from 2001 with filmmaker Claude Lelouch on the film's French premiere at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival ; PLUS: an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara.

In Russian with optional English subtitles.

Mosfil�£m ; directed by, Mikhail Kalatozov ; screenplay, Viktor Rozov.

Tatiana Samoilova and Alexei Batalov with Vasily Merkuryev, Alexander Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Nikitin, Valentin Zubhov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovin and Yekaterina Kuprianova.

"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."--Container.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Rozov, Viktor, 1913-2004. Vechno zhivye.

Kalatozov, Mikhail, 1903-1973.

Samoĭlova, Tatʹ︠i︡ana, 1934-

Batalov, Alekseĭ Vladimirovich.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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