The Cranes Are Flying - The Criterion Collection

Mikhail Kalatozov's critically-acclaimed, romantic tragedy starring Tatyana Samojlova. Young Moscow couple, Veronika (Samojlova) and Boris (Aleksey Batalov), are deeply in love but are separated when Boris volunteers to join the army during World War II. While she waits for her lover to return, Veronika is raped by Boris's cousin, Fyodor (Vasily Merkuryev), and later - having become resigned to the fact that Boris will never return - agrees to marry him.

Special Features

Documentaries: 'Hurricane Kalatozov' (2009), Interviews: New interview with scholar Ian Christie; Audio interview from 1961 with director Mikhail Kalatozov; Interview from 2001 with filmmaker Claude Lelouch on the film's French premiere at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; Segment from a 2008 program about the film's cinematography, featuring original storyboards and an interview with actor Alexei Batalov; New English subtitle translation; An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, Storyboard Comparisons

Actors: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Vasili Merkuryev

Audio Languages: Russian

Duration: 96 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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