'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
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Documentary
2020 19min
Synopsis
Film scholar Ian Christie unpacks why 'The Cranes Are Flying' is such a landmark of Soviet cinema, breaking away as it did from decades of forcibly pro-state propaganda with its focus on individual tragedy and its ambivalence about the heroism of war.
Main Casting
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Technical team
Elizabeth Pauker Producing
Kim Hendrickson Executive Producing
Peter Becker Executive Producing
Fumiko Takagi Executive Producing
Jonathan Turell Executive Producing
Production
The Criterion Collection