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'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema (2020)

Documentary · 19m

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.

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Cast

I
Ian Christie Self

Crew

Editor
Iván Cortázar
Producer
Elizabeth Pauker

Details

Release date
2020-03-24
Runtime
19m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
The Criterion Collection