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The Cranes Are Flying is a 1957 Soviet war drama film directed and produced by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm, written by Viktor Rozov, and starring Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. It depicts the cruelty and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of the Second World War, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War.
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Most casual cinephiles are typically familiar with only two prominent figures from the history of Soviet cinema: Sergei Eisenstein, who marked its inception, and Andrei Tarkovsky, who represented its culmination. However, between these two cinematic giants, there exists a rich tapestry of influential filmmakers whose contributions significantly impacted cinema beyond Soviet borders. One such figure is Mikhail Kalato…More
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My knowledge of Russian films has always been rather sparse. Having never really bothered to have researched or dived into any classics. For most, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky sits at the top of the nation's most-known creatives, though his works haven't particularly appealed to me all that much. Films riddled with slow cinematography and metaphors can be nice, but don't particularly speak of any narrative or real lif…More