Two young lovers are separated by the outbreak of war, each confronting personal upheaval and grief, trying to maintain the dream that someday they will be together again.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
Mono - Russian
Featured
Tatiana Samoilova:
Review 1:
"[E]ye-popping cinematography, with visual virtuoso Sergei Urusevsky pushing 1950s technology well beyond what seems technically feasible."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.81 02/01/2007
Review 2:
"THE CRANES ARE FLYING is a big, bold wartime weepie about a love triangle involving a soldier at war, his fiancee and his feckless cousin..."
Source: Total Film
p.123 03/01/2007