The Cranes Are Flying
The compelling story of a girl's impassioned search for happiness.
19571h 37mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Romance
- War
Overview
Veronika and Boris 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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 12, 1957
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Mosfilm
- Cast
- Tatyana Samoylova,Aleksey Batalov,Vasili Merkuryev,Aleksandr Shvorin,Svetlana Kharitonova,Konstantin Kadochnikov,Valentin Zubkov,Antonina Bogdanova,Boris Kokovkin,Ekaterina Kupriyanovaand 34 more
- Director
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- Producer
- Igor Vakar
- Cinematography
- Sergei Urusevsky
- Music
- Mieczysław Weinberg
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0050634