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• Actors: Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov, Vassily Merkuriev, Alexander Shvorin
• Directors: Mikhail Kalatozov
• Format: Black & White, NTSC, Import, Full Screen
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: RUSCICO
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002CTYUI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,716 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

AUDIO SOUNDTRACKS: Russian, English, French (all - Dolby Digital 5.1) SUBTITLES: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese. The triumphant success of this film started with its winning the first prize at the Cannes festival in 1958, where an excellent acting by Tatiana Samoilova was also recognized. After that the picture was welcomed in numerous worlds movie theatres. This is a story of love that could not be destroyed even by war. Boris is felled by an enemys bullet in action. Veronica is devastated: she has lost her lover, her parents, her home. As an act of despair, she attempts to find a new family for herself, but only loses her self-respect. She is finally redeemed by rescuing a little boy from being run down by a car. She finds strength to continue living, refusing to believe that Boris is dead. Veronica would not stop waiting for him. Life for her is love, and its loss is equivalent to death... Awards: Palme dOr at the Cannes IFF, 1958; Special Diploma for Best Actress (Tatiana Samoilova) at the Cannes IFF, 1958; Honorary Diploma at the Locarno IFF, 1958; Silver Sombrero Prize at the Guadalajara IFF, 1958 Director: Mikhail Kalatozov Script: Victor Rozov Camera: Sergei Urusevsky Music by: Moisey Vainberg Cast: Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov, Vassily Merkuriev, Alexander Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Nikitin, Valentin Zubkov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ye. Kupriyanova, Valentina Ananyina, Valentina Vladimirova, Nikolai Smorchkov Special Freatures: Original Trailer; Original Soundtrack; Music excluded from the movie; Catalogue of War Planes from World War II; Interview with the composer; Filmographies, Photos

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "deja vu", May 16, 2007

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Nameskhar (The Bronx, NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cranes are Flying (1957) (DVD)

I am watching this movie, "The Cranes Are Flying", before the ending and I love it-it is bittersweet.

I was a young soldier, in 1969 South Vietnam, my girlfriend was married by the time I retuned, this very excellent film brought some of those memories back, memories that are met with a greater understanding that, although, life goes on for loved ones left behind, they are visited with hardships of another kind ... that ultimately, things work out the way they are suppose to more often than not.

Put another way: Until further notice-there is always a tomorrow.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gem of the post-Stalinist thaw, May 7, 2005

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K. Sandness (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cranes are Flying (1957) (DVD)

The Soviet film industry produced some masterpieces after Khrushchev denounced Stalin in 1956, and The Cranes Are Flying is one of the most fully realized and emotionally moving films of the period.

The war separates two young lovers--they are forced apart without a chance even to say goodbye--and although we know that the young man, Boris, has been killed early on, Veronika maintains hope to the very end despite enduring tremendous hardships.

The final scene, where she is forced to realize that Boris is never coming back, is in one sense heartbreaking but also strangely uplifting when we see what she does with the flowers she had bought to welcome him home. It is only the last of many sequences beautifully photographed in black and white.

Knowing a fair amount about Russian history, I couldn't help noticing that this was a Soviet film about World War II in which the dominant public figure of the period, Joseph Stalin, was never mentioned or alluded to.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The horror of the War is not just on the battlefield!, December 16, 2005

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cranes are Flying (1957) (DVD)

During the World War II, a young woman is so impressed and shattered at the news of her lover 's death that she decides to step ahead and accept to marry a man she does not care.

It would seem the multiple consequences left by the war 's wounds are so far to be expected. There are quite interweaved issues and events, that surmounts the frozen concept of the random. The trickery intersections of the fate become raw material for psychologist and hard investigators of the human nature.

This films talks us about the unsaid consequences of the War, even after having survived. In the War you may feed your dreams and hopes, but in the other side there is just a daily anxiety and desperation, and many times this living equation with both variables playing on different sides may clash, breaking the most sublime projects.

An unforgettable classic, that joined with Ivan 's childhood constitute the supreme gems of the Russian Cinema in the Fifties.