Letyat zhuravli (1957)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Mikhail Kalatozov

Escritores:

Viktor Rozov (play)
Viktor Rozov (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 marzo 1960 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Guerra

Plot:

Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.

Plot Keywords:

Cousin | Dead Soldier | Soldiers Home | Dream Sequence | Munitions Factory

Premios:

Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Exquisite romantic tale of bittersweet war romance...

Reparto

Tatyana Samojlova	...	Veronika (as T. Samojlova)
Aleksey Batalov	...	Boris
Vasili Merkuryev	...	Fyodor Ivanovich (as V. Merkuryev)
Aleksandr Shvorin	...	Mark (as A. Shvorin)
Svetlana Kharitonova	...	Irina (as S. Kharitonova)
Konstantin Nikitin	...	Volodya (as K. Nikitin)
Valentin Zubkov	...	Stepan (as V. Zubkov)
Antonina Bogdanova	...	Grandmother (as A. Bogdanova)
Boris Kokovkin	...	Tyernov (as B. Kokovkin)
Yekaterina Kupriyanova	...	Anna Mikhajlovna (as Ye. Kupriyanova)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Valentina Ananyina
O. Dzisko
Klarina Frolova		(as K. Frolova)
Leonid Knyazev		(as L. Knyazev)
Yu. Kulikov
Pyotr Merkuryev
Daniil Netrebin
Aleksandr Popov		(as Sasha Popov)
I. Preis
T. Shamshurin
Nikolai Smorchkov		(as N. Smorchkov)
Galina Stepanova
Adrián Viador	...	Mark (voice)
Valentina Vladimirova

También conocida como:

Летят журавли (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Miprinaven tseroebi (Soviet Union: Georgian title)
The Cranes Are Flying (USA)
Cuando pasan las cigüeñas (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Argentina:97 min | Germany:95 min | Russia:97 min | Sweden:94 min | USA:94 min

País:

Soviet Union

Idioma:

Ruso

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | USA:TV-PG | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | West Germany:12 (bw)

Compañía:

Ministerstvo Kinematografii

Trivialidades:

When the film was released in the Soviet Union, it caused a sensation amongst audiences weaned on propaganda fare. For the first time, audiences were able to weep at the pain of losing millions of their population in the war. It was also the first time that subjects like draft dodging, war profiteering and the black market had been expressed on film.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)

Exquisite romantic tale of bittersweet war romance...

Russian actress TATIANA SAMOILOVA reminds me so much of the young Audrey Hepburn and the camera in THE CRANES ARE FLYING seems to love her just as much. She is the focal point of a bittersweet war romance against the background of World War II in Moscow.

The film is almost poetic in its gorgeous B&W cinematography which was the main reason for watching the film in the first place, since I had never heard of it and decided to give it a try when it aired on TCM.

It's a very moving love story about a girl's deep love for a man who is suddenly swept away by his role as a soldier drafted in wartime Russia. She's unable to forget the memory of her romantic attachment to him, but inexplicably marries someone else who has forced himself on her, a pianist who soon realizes that she still loves the soldier she hopes to hear from. Their marriage is a troubled one because she can't let go of her remembrance of a happier time with her soldier sweetheart.

By the end of the story, she accepts the idea that he's never going to return and is able to face reality and cope with the situation. There's a very poignant final scene at a train station where arriving soldiers are greeting their loved ones and the tearful girl shares the joy of the returning soldiers by giving some flowers from her bouquet to the joyous families.

The stylish and striking camera-work is what carries the film, as well as the honestly played story.

Tastefully done, but perhaps the English subtitles didn't tell the whole tale because some of the plot elements seemed a bit blurred to me as if they had been glossed over.

Summing up: Easy to see why it won awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Reminded me, in style, of another great Russian film, BALLAD OF A SOLDIER.