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'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

2020-03-24 en 19m
Documentary
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.

Executive Producer

Kim Hendrickson

Executive Producer

Peter Becker

Executive Producer

Fumiko Takagi

Executive Producer

Jonathan Turell

Producer

Elizabeth Pauker

Editor

Iván Cortázar

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • The Criterion Collection