Let︠ia︡t zhuravli The cranes are flying
(2002, original release: 1957)
Fiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/RUSSIAN/CRANES
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[Place of publication not identified] : Criterion Collection, [2002]
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (94 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
0780025687 CRA040
LANGUAGE
Russian
NOTES
Based on the play with the same title by Victor Rozov
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957
"The Classic Collection, a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema"--Container
Photography, Sergei Urusevsky ; music, Moisei Vainberg
Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov
Not rated
DVD, Dolby mono
In Russian with English subtitles