Movie Description

'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

(2020)

Overview

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.

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Facts

Original Title'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

Status Released

Release Information

  • 2020-03-24

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 00h 19m

Production CompaniesThe Criterion Collection

Genres

  • Documentary