Criterion Collection CRANES ARE FLYING 1957 / 2020 DVD Insert / Booklet #146 B&W

Description: Veronika (Tatyana Samoylova) and Boris (Aleksey Batalov) come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions. Mikhail Kalatozov The Cranes Are FlyingThis landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. It tells the story of Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova) and Boris (Alexei Batalov), a couple who are blissfully in love until 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 Are Flying is a superbly crafted drama with impassioned performances and viscerally emotional, gravity-defying cinematography by Kalatozov’s regular collaborator Sergei Urusevsky. Film InfoSoviet Union195796 minutesBlack & White1.37:1Russian LanguageSpine #146DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESNew 2K digital restorationNew interview with scholar Ian Christie on why the film is a landmark of Soviet cinemaAudio interview from 1961 with director Mikhail KalatozovHurricane Kalatozov, a documentary from 2009 on the Georgian director’s complex relationship with the Soviet governmentSegment from a 2008 program about the film’s cinematography, featuring original storyboards and an interview with actor Alexei BatalovInterview from 2001 with filmmaker Claude Lelouch on the film’s French premiere at the 1958 Cannes Film FestivalNew English subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by critic Chris FujiwaraCover design by Century.Studio

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