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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 world’s movie theatres.

This is a story of love that could not be destroyed even by war. Boris is felled by an enemy’s 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…

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Actors: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova
Genre: Drama, Romance, War


Awards:
• Palme d’Or 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

The Cranes are Flying (1957) RUSCICO
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DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:31:15 | 7.01 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Russian
Subtitle: Russian, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano, Portugues, Nederlands, Hebrew, Japanese, Svenska, Chinese, Arabic

Special Freatures:
• Interview with the leading actor Alexey Batalov
• Documentary about T. Samoilova
• Newsreels of the 1941 parade on Red Square, Moscow
• Filmographies
• Photos
• Soon on DVD

The Cranes are Flying (1957) Criterion Collection
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BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:36:50 | 44.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English

Extras:
• New interview with scholar Ian Christie on why the film is a landmark of Soviet cinema (18:40)
• Audio interview from 1961 with director Mikhail Kalatozov (11:10)
• Hurricane Kalatozov, a documentary from 2009 on the Georgian director’s complex relationship with the Soviet government (1:13:44)
• Segment from a 2008 program about the film’s cinematography, featuring original storyboards and an interview with actor Alexei Batalov (18:46)
• Interview from 2001 with filmmaker Claude Lelouch on the film’s French premiere at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival (4:44)

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