'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

2020
19min

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.

'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

Storyline

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.
    Released
    24 March 2020
    Runtime
    19min
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    English
    Production
    The Criterion Collection
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