'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

Name: 'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-10-03
Duration: 19 min
Cast: Ian Christie

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NR 19 minDocumentary

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.

StarringIan Christie

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