The cranes are flying - the CRITERION COLLECTION
- Zavvi The Home of Pop CultureThis landmark film by the virtuosic MIKHAIL KALATOZOV (Letter Never Sent) was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike
- It tells the story of Veronica and Boris
- A couple who are blissfully in love until the eruption of World War II tears them apart
- With Boris at the front
- Veronica must try to ward off spiritual numbness and defend herself from the increasingly forceful advances of her beau’s draft-dodging cousin
- Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival
- The Cranes AreFlying is a superbly crafted drama with impassioned performances and viscerally emotional
- Gravity defying cinematography by Kalatozov’s regular collaborator SERGEI URUSEVSKY (I Am Cuba)
- Special FeaturesNew 2K digital restoration
- With uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rayNew interview with scholar Ian Christie on why the film is a landmark of Soviet cinemaAudio interview from 1961 with director Mikhail Kalatozov Hurricane Kalatozov
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