The Cranes Are Flying
1957 film by Mikhail Kalatozov / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1]
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Directed by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
Written by | Viktor Rozov |
Based on | Life Eternal (play) by Viktor Rozov |
Produced by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
Starring | Tatyana Samojlova Aleksey Batalov Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin |
Cinematography | Sergey Urusevsky |
Edited by | Mariya Timofeyeva |
Music by | Mieczysław Weinberg |
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Distributed by | Goskino |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Box office | 28,300,000 admissions (USSR) 5,410,000 admissions (France) |
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The film had a profound impact on Soviet cinema, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival,[2] the only Soviet film to win that award.[lower-alpha 1]