'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
Film
'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
United States- Year
- 2020
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.
Top cast
Produced by
Elizabeth Pauker