'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
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StarringIan Christie
NR 19 minDocumentary
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Plot
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.

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Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Kim Hendrickson, Peter Becker, Fumiko Takagi, Jonathan Turell
Production Companies:The Criterion Collection