One of the best films of all times and nations.
The film was directed at Mosfilm, Moscow, USSR, by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and stars Tatiana Samoilova, Aleksey Batalov and Vasili Merkuryev. It won the highest prize Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
This genius work of director Mikhail Kalatozov puts itself on a par with the greatest creations of Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo. This masterpiece is comparable only with the most deep and brilliant novels of Hugo, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov.
There is also manifested the genius one the greatest world cinematographers Sergey Urusevsky. His subjective camera style in 'The Cranes Are Flying' is regarded as one of the best of all time, winning him several awards throughout his career.
With all my love and sympathy to the Western culture I should admit that this film obviously stands far above the other best creations of the best directors ever lived worldwide, far above the best French, Italian, American films.
In this film everything is brilliant but especially amazing are the scenes when Veronika are running from the hospital to throw herself under a train, the scene of Boris death at a front, the struggling scene of Veronika and Mark during an air bombing.
The film was directed at Mosfilm, Moscow, USSR, by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and stars Tatiana Samoilova, Aleksey Batalov and Vasili Merkuryev. It won the highest prize Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
This genius work of director Mikhail Kalatozov puts itself on a par with the greatest creations of Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo. This masterpiece is comparable only with the most deep and brilliant novels of Hugo, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov.
There is also manifested the genius one the greatest world cinematographers Sergey Urusevsky. His subjective camera style in 'The Cranes Are Flying' is regarded as one of the best of all time, winning him several awards throughout his career.
With all my love and sympathy to the Western culture I should admit that this film obviously stands far above the other best creations of the best directors ever lived worldwide, far above the best French, Italian, American films.
In this film everything is brilliant but especially amazing are the scenes when Veronika are running from the hospital to throw herself under a train, the scene of Boris death at a front, the struggling scene of Veronika and Mark during an air bombing.
