This landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. It tells the story of Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova) and Boris (Alexei Batalov), a couple who are blissfully in love until World War II tears them apart. With Boris at the front, Veronica must try to ward off spiritual numbness and defend herself from the increasingly forceful advances of her beau’s draft-dodging cousin. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, The Cranes Are Flying is a superbly crafted drama with impassioned performances and viscerally emotional, gravity-defying cinematography by Kalatozov’s regular collaborator Sergei Urusevsky.  


STARS...........: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev
DIRECTOR........: Mikhail Kalatozov
WRITERS.........: Viktor Rozov (play), Viktor Rozov (screenplay)
GENRE...........: Drama, Romance, War
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050634
RUNTIME.........: 1h 36mn
SIZE............: 4.87 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.78:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: Russian AAC 1.0 197kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2020-05-13


Extras

• Ian Christie
• Mikhail Kalatozov
• Portrait of Sergei Urusevsky
• The Road to Cannes
• Hurricane Kalatozov