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 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.[1]
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Directed by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
Written by | Viktor Rozov (play & screenplay) |
Produced by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
Starring | Tatyana Samojlova Aleksey Batalov Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin |
Cinematography | Sergey Urusevsky |
Edited by | Mariya Timofeyeva |
Music by | Moisey Vaynberg |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates | 12 October 1957 (Soviet Union) 21 March 1960 (USA) |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Box office | 28,300,000 admissions (USSR) 5,410,000 admissions (France) |
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,[2] 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.)[3]