The Cranes are flying (Film 1957)

The Cranes Are Flying (Russian: Летят журавли, translit. Letyat zhuravli) is a 1957 Soviet war drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm, written by Viktor Rozov, and starring Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. Audio in Russian with English subtitles.

The film depicts the cruelty and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of the Second World War, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. The film had a profound impact on Soviet cinema. At the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or, the only Soviet film to ever do so (in 1946, The Turning Point was one of eleven films awarded the Grand Prix, the predecessor of the Palme d'Or). Tatiana Samoilova received a Special Mention for her performance.

At the 12th British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Film from any Source, and Tatiana Samoilova was nominated for Best Foreign Actress.

Cast & Characters;
Tatiana Samoilova as Veronika
Aleksey Batalov as Boris
Vasili Merkuryev as Fyodor Ivanovich
Aleksandr Shvorin as Mark
Svetlana Kharitonova as Irina
Konstantin Nikitin as Volodya
Valentin Zubkov as Stepan
Antonina Bogdanova as Grandmother
Boris Kokovkin as Tyernov
Yekaterina Kupriyanova as Anna Mikhajlovna
Valentina Ananina as Lyuba
Valentina Vladimirova as Soldatka
Olga Dzisko as Dasha
Leonid Knyazev as Sachkov
Georgiy Kulikov as Anatoliy Kuzmin
Daniil Netrebin as Raneyy
Aleksandr Popov as Borya
Irina Preys as Antonina Monastyrskaya
Nikolay Smorchkov as Zakharov