35mm

The Cranes Are Flying

Letyat zhuravli
Mikhail Kalatozov
Part of

Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama

December 13, 2017 - January 7, 2018

This Palme d’Or–winning landmark of Soviet cinema—a shattering tale of young lovers wrenched apart by World War II—explodes off the screen with dazzling black-and-white cinematography.

DIRECTOR
Mikhail Kalatozov
YEAR
1957
COUNTRY
USSR
RUNTIME
95 minutes
LANGUAGE
Russian with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
Letyat zhuravli

Something like the Gone with the Wind of Soviet Russia—a sensation both at home and abroad that pointed the way toward a post-Stalin thaw in filmic expression—this shattering tale of wartime resilience from I Am Cuba director Mikhail Kalatozov follows the saga of Veronika (the radiant Tatiana Samoilova) who endures heartache and uncertainty when her lover is lost on the front lines of World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the movie is a marvel of dazzling black-and-white cinematography, mixing passages of exhilarating handheld camerawork with striking deep-focus compositions worthy of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

 

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