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
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.
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Reviews for The Cranes Are Flying
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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.
12/08/03
Ultra-realistic
04/21/02
Wow!
09/13/07
Lovely, humane and heartbreaking
09/02/03
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01/18/08
Moving melodramatic war movie.
06/16/07
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06/19/05
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02/18/07
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
06/13/02
dazzling, magnificently made
08/20/06
In the rich Russian tradition founded by Eisenstein ..., director Mikhail Kalatozov and cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky leave a visually pleasing treasure
09/05/02
...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.
04/04/06
Ranks among the best war movies ever made.
09/09/02
A key post-war effort, both for its cinematic audacity and for its frank, moving depiction of families and lovers torn apart by violence.
06/11/02
It's exactly what you'd expect: tepid, artsy, and grayish.
01/19/07
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