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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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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
Mark Bourne
DVDJournal.com

No review available.

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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
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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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