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The Cranes Are Flying

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The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:16

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Two young lovers are separated by the outbreak of war, each confronting personal upheaval and grief, trying to maintain the dream that someday they will be together again.

Starring: Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov

Starring: Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

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Apr 30, 2002

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01/18/08
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

Wow!

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09/13/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Moving melodramatic war movie.

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06/16/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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No review available.

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02/18/07
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

It's exactly what you'd expect: tepid, artsy, and grayish.

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01/19/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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A beautiful performance is given by the gorgeous Samoilova, the great-niece of Stanislavsky and daughter of an actor father, Yevgeni Samoilov.

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08/29/06
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dazzling, magnificently made

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08/20/06
Jay Antani
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Perihelion Journal
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06/24/06
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...these lyrical visuals (and some splendid performances) transform a story that would otherwise be thin melodrama into a confident and polished film packing an impressive amount of visual and emotional material into its 95 minutes.

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04/04/06
Mark Bourne
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DVDJournal.com

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06/19/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Thanks to Mr. Kalatozov's direction and the excellent performance Tatyana Samoilova gives as the girl, one absorbs a tremendous feeling of sympathy from this film -- a feeling that has no awareness of geographical or political bounds.

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12/08/03
Bosley Crowther
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New York Times
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10/15/03
Jurgen Fauth
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About.com

Lovely, humane and heartbreaking

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09/02/03
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

Ranks among the best war movies ever made.

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09/09/02
Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw
Apollo Guide

In the rich Russian tradition founded by Eisenstein ..., director Mikhail Kalatozov and cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky leave a visually pleasing treasure

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09/05/02
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews

tells an old, melodramatic war story in visual terms that are so striking and evocative that you are able to overlook the plot ellipses, contrivances, and cliches

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06/13/02
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

A key post-war effort, both for its cinematic audacity and for its frank, moving depiction of families and lovers torn apart by violence.

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06/11/02
Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
AV Club

Ultra-realistic

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04/21/02
Christopher Null
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