The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Letyat zhuravli
The compelling story of a girl's impassioned search for happiness.
95 min
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.
- Release date
- October 12, 1957
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Tatyana Samoylova as Veronika
- Aleksey Batalov as Boris Fyodorovich Borozdin
- Vasiliy Merkurev as Fyodor Ivanovich Borozdin
- Aleksandr Shvorin as Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin
- Svetlana Kharitonova as Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina
- Konstantin Kadochnikov as Volodya
- Valentin Zubkov as Stepan
- Antonina Bogdanova as Varvara Kapitanova -babushka Borisa i Irina
- Boris Kokovkin as Nikolay Chernov
- Ekaterina Kupriyanova as Anna Mikhaylovna Lebedeva
- Valentina Ananina as Lyuba
- Valentina Vladimirova as Woman Soldier
- Leonid Knyazev as Sachkov
- Georgiy Kulikov as Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin
- Daniil Netrebin as Wounded Man
- Georgiy Shamshurin as Aleksey, Veronika's Father
- Valentina Berezutskaya as Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)
- Mayya Bulgakova as Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
- Anatoliy Dudorov as Military Man (uncredited)
Crew
- Mikheil Kalatozishvili · Director
- Viktor Rozov · Writer
- Mikheil Kalatozishvili · Producer
- Moisey Vaynberg · Composer
- Sergey Urusevskiy · Cinematographer
- Mariya Timofeyeva · Editor
- Evgeniy Svidetelev · Production designer