'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

• Movies
• 2020-03-24
• EN
• Released
• 0h 19m
• US
• Documentary

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Production

The Criterion Collection

Storyline

Film scholar Ian Christie unpacks why 'The Cranes Are Flying' is such a landmark of Soviet cinema, breaking away as it did from decades of forcibly pro-state propaganda with its focus on individual tragedy and its ambivalence about the heroism of war.