The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying

  • Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
  • Countries of origin: Soviet Union
  • Language: Russian
  • Release date: March 21, 1960
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Zdralovi lete
  • "The Cranes Are Flying" is a war love film released by Mosfilm on October 12, 1957. The film is directed by Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, starring Tatyana Samojlova , Aleksey Batalov , and Vasily Mahira .
    The film tells a tragic love story in which a pair of lovers were forced to separate during the war, the heroine Veronica was forced to marry, divorced later, and continued to wait for the return of the sacrificed lover Boris. 

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    • Release date March 21, 1960
    • Filming locations Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, Russia
    • Production companies Mosfilm

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $17,923

    Gross worldwide

    $17,923

    Movie reviews

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    • By Michael 2022-08-07 18:59:25

      The Cranes Are Flying--Russian War Movies

      Russian Film Week is finally over. The last one is "Yan Nan Fei." In the first five minutes, I understood why the French liked her so much. The scenes are too Seine. After watching it, I finally understood why the heroine got a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival. I really don't know how an actor can be in a completely silent scene, without any soundtrack or even ambient sound. In...

    • By Nicholaus 2022-03-26 09:01:12

      anyhow write

      The first 30 minutes of the film are biased towards false realism, which can even be seen as an aggressive imitation of realism by drama. The director designed a premeditated opening to allow the subsequent plot to proceed rationally. The "noble" willingness to join the army voluntarily is the premise of the whole movie, but this premise is completely one-way and conclusive, and it loses the characteristics of reality, which makes it slightly difficult to create a sense of reality in the...

    • By Tremaine 2022-03-26 09:01:12

      Boris is a real hero

      The same is about war. The former Soviet Union can make such beautiful and moving films. Why can’t your country make such films? Your country only has a bunch of old-fashioned dramas. This kind of film can better show the war. The cruel and tragic destruction of human nature to human beings can only show human nature in a more sublime way, reminding the future that Boris is a hero, a real good man will not sit idly by when the country is in trouble and only covet personal comfort, Veronica...

    • By Corene 2022-03-25 09:01:19

      Although love is gone, the distance is still there

      In 1956, Khrushchev presided over the 20th Congress of the CPSU, which fundamentally denied Stalin and thoroughly criticized the cult of personality and dictatorship. The Soviet film industry ushered in a new atmosphere, and "The Wild Goose" was born in this context, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes International Film Festival. In fact, there is no "geese" in the film at all, and the flying creatures in the film are actually "cranes". But in terms of connotation, the Chinese...

    • By Morris 2022-03-25 09:01:19

      "Yan Nan Fei": Hope is the source of love

      "Yan Nan Fei": Hope is the source of love

      Liu Qiang loves movies

      There are five Soviet films that I like very much, namely "Ivan's Childhood", "Song of the Soldier", "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", "The Story of the Office" and "Flying Wild Goose". From the perspective of film history, the biggest contribution of "Flying Wild Goose" is in photography, of course, including lighting, composition, etc. It can be said that as early as 1957, when the film was born, Soviet film artists had...

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    • By Kim 2023-05-06 19:45:35

      In addition to a little too many close-ups to watch, it is still a very beautiful and poetic movie. Veronica actually has a willful, fragile and paranoid temperament, which is even more charming. I really like black and white images more and more, and those who are elegantly and elegantly restored like CC are...

    • By Rosalee 2023-01-21 02:02:09

      [A] It is really a long shot of motion in the movie. We watched the heroine walk with the camera, passing through the crowd, bushes, ruins and smoke. In the visual cage formed by countless foregrounds, her expression is always determined. The montage before the death of the male protagonist demonstrates the superiority of overlapping editing. Fantasy and reality cannot be separated. The adhesion inside the image is the best psychological profile. In the long shot of the last station, the...

    • By Adela 2022-12-02 03:18:39

      She was thinking of their past by the river, and he called her the little sparrow and the geese in the sky. She cried bitterly in the crowd, the birch forest in the old movie, but that person didn't come...

    • By Joaquin 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      The beginning of a beautiful story, the tragedy is in the countdown. The quiet village floats with white snow. The world is repeating the machine again, shame of russia shame. 20220305 Cinema Black and White @Su Ying Collection Exhibition Guangzhou Station Beijing Road CGV, 2017 restored...

    • By Conner 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      CC Collection No. 146, produced in the USSR in 1957. Another year when geese fly by, and things are different from people at that time. A poignant love, a cruel war, a poor girl. Advanced camera usage, poetic storytelling. The 11th Cannes Palme d'Or....

    Movie plot

    Veronica ( Tatyana Samojlova ) and Boris ( Aleksey Batalov ) are a pair of young people in love. They dated happily and sweetly. But one day war broke out. Boris took the initiative to join the army to fight on the front lines. Before leaving, the two could not meet for the last time. In the violent bombings of enemy planes, Veronica's home was razed to the ground by shells, and her parents were killed. She only boarded at Boris's...
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    "The Cranes Are Flying" is considered to be "a movie satellite launched by the Russians." After it was released, it received widespread repercussions. The reason is that the film broke through the rigid framework of Soviet World War II films and embarked on a path of poetic film. On the surface, the story of the film is not particularly novel, but the director Mikhail Kalatozov used those beautiful long shots and rotating shots to...
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    Movie quotes

    • Stepan: Dear mother, father, sisters and brothers! The happiness of our reunion is immeasurable. The heart of every Soviet citizen is filled with joy. Joy sings in our hearts. It is victory that has brought us this joy. We have all waited for this moment. But we shall not forget those left behind on the battlefield. Time will pass. Towns and villages will be rebuilt. Our wounds will heal. But our fierce hatred of war will never diminish. We share the grief of those who cannot meet their loved ones today, and we will do everything to insure that sweethearts are never again parted by war, that mothers need never again fear for their children's lives, that fathers need never again choke back hidden tears. We have won, and we shall live not to destroy, but to build a new life!

    • [first lines]

      Boris: Wait, squirrel! Here. Put it on.

    • Fyodor Ivanovich: Stop it this minute! You're a still a soldier in the Red Army! Are you trying to get discharged? Are you afraid we'll heal your hands and send you back to the front?

      A patient in the infirmary: No, Doctor, he's not like that. He got a letter.

      Fyodor Ivanovich: I know. That's just an excuse. Big deal! So your bride ran off. You should be glad! She isn't worth a penny if she would trade a handsome guy like you, a real hero, for some rat sitting out the war at home! It's she who's forfeit her happiness, not you! And that's what she deserves. She's got a petty soul. People like her can't understand how much suffering we've gone through. You stood up to death itself. You looked death in the face. You approached it with your chest stuck out. And she couldn't even pass the little test of time. Woman like her deserve only your contempt. There can be no forgiveness for them!