The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Drama • Romance • War • 1ч 37м
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
TMDB rating:
7.9
(456)
Cast
Tatyana Samoylova
Veronika
Aleksey Batalov
Boris
Vasili Merkuryev
Fyodor Ivanovich
Aleksandr Shvorin
Mark
Svetlana Kharitonova
Irina
Konstantin Kadochnikov
Volodya
Valentin Zubkov
Stepan
Antonina Bogdanova
Grandmother
Boris Kokovkin
Chernov
Ekaterina Kupriyanova
Anna Mikhaylovna
Valentina Ananina
Lyuba
Valentina Vladimirova
Woman Soldier
Olga Dzisko
Dasha
Leonid Knyazev
Sachkov
Georgiy Kulikov
Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin
Daniil Netrebin
Wounded Man
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Aleksandr Popov
Borya
Irina Preis
Antonina Nikolayevna Monastyrskaya
Nikolay Smorchkov
Zakharov
Galina Stepanova
Veronika's Mother
Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova
Guest at Party
Georgiy Shamshurin
Aleksey, Veronika's Father
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Leonid Alekseev
Old Man (uncredited)
Valentina Berezutskaya
Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)
Crew
Mikhail Kalatozov
Director
Sergei Urusevsky
Director of Photography
Mieczysław Weinberg
Original Music Composer
Mariya Timofeyeva
Editor
Lidiya Naumova
Costume Design
Yevgeni Svidetelev
Production Design
Arnold Roytman
Conductor
Igor Vakar
Executive Producer
Bela Fridman
First Assistant Director
Igor Mayorov
Sound Recordist
Nikolay Olonovskiy
First Assistant Camera
Olga Struntsova
Key Makeup Artist
Vadim Korostylyov
Lyricist
Viktor Rozov
Theatre Play
Viktor Rozov
Screenplay
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