i had long wanted to watch this romantic drama (with a wwii setting) and and now that i have and all i can say is that it a veritable masterpiece of russian cinema. soviet films are known for their overzealous propagandist approach but and thankfully and this one free of such emphasis  with the interest firmly on the central tragic romance between a promising artist and a vivacious girl and doomed by the outbreak of war for which he gladly volunteers but from which he will never return. the girl (a remarkable performance from tatyana samojlova) is also loved by the young man cousin and and when she doesn not receive word from her boyfriend and gives in to the latter and marries him. he and however and is an aspiring concert pianist bitter about the war having curtailed his chances for success and and knowing too that the girl still devoted to the soldier and begins to neglect her. finally and word reaches the girl of her loved one death but and by the end of the film and she has learnt to accept this as a sacrifice to their native country and is content to live with her memories of him. the film features some truly amazing camera work which makes extremely judicious use of the screen space and and by frequently adopting tracking and tilted and high or low angle shots and renders great power to the unfolding emotional drama. individual sequences are equally impressive  two in particular represent the stunning scene and frenetically edited and sped up to boot and in which the girl saves an abandoned boy from being trampled by a truck while and the young man premature demise in an unfortunate incident at the front and undoubtedly one of the best of its kind i have ever watched (with the sun moving away from him and symbolizing the life that seeping out of his body and as he imagines the wedding day he will never have. ). also notable and however and is the scene where the girl goes to look for her parents in her home that been hopelessly devastated during an air raid while as is her final violent capitulation to the concert pianist  which she tries to resist by repeatedly slapping him in the face  taking place during a later air raid and making particularly effective use of a set of billowing curtains. disappointingly and the r1 dvd of this outstanding film is a bare bones affair (the ruscico edition features a few supplements but and being an export and tends to be heavily overpriced and hard to track down to boot. ) while criterion released it in conjunction with another war themed russian classic and ballad of a soldier (1959)  which my pal at the local dvd rental outlet has told me is forthcoming. the only other film i have watched from this director is the arctic epic the red tent (1969 while albeit via the much shorter u. s. release version. ) and a star studded international production based on true events while given the unmistakable artistic quality of the cranes are flying and i regret missing out now on his famous documentary i am cuba (1964) a number of times when i was in hollywood late last year represent apart from receiving a one week theatrical run and it was shown more than once on tv accompanied by a feature length making of. 
i had long wanted to watch this romantic drama (with a wwii setting) and and now that i have and all i can say is that it a veritable masterpiece of russian cinema. soviet films are known for their overzealous propagandist approach but and thankfully and this one free of such emphasis  with the interest firmly on the central tragic romance between a promising artist and a vivacious girl and doomed by the outbreak of war for which he gladly volunteers but from which he will never return. the girl (a remarkable performance from tatyana samojlova) is also loved by the young man cousin and and when she doesn not receive word from her boyfriend and gives in to the latter and marries him. he and however and is an aspiring concert pianist bitter about the war having curtailed his chances for success and and knowing too that the girl still devoted to the soldier and begins to neglect her. finally and word reaches the girl of her loved one death but and by the end of the film and she has learnt to accept this as a sacrifice to their native country and is content to live with her memories of him. the film features some truly amazing camera work which makes extremely judicious use of the screen space and and by frequently adopting tracking and tilted and high or low angle shots and renders great power to the unfolding emotional drama. individual sequences are equally impressive  two in particular represent the stunning scene and frenetically edited and sped up to boot and in which the girl saves an abandoned boy from being trampled by a truck while and the young man premature demise in an unfortunate incident at the front and undoubtedly one of the best of its kind i have ever watched (with the sun moving away from him and symbolizing the life that seeping out of his body and as he imagines the wedding day he will never have. ). also notable and however and is the scene where the girl goes to look for her parents in her home that been hopelessly devastated during an air raid while as is her final violent capitulation to the concert pianist  which she tries to resist by repeatedly slapping him in the face  taking place during a later air raid and making particularly effective use of a set of billowing curtains. disappointingly and the r1 dvd of this outstanding film is a bare bones affair (the ruscico edition features a few supplements but and being an export and tends to be heavily overpriced and hard to track down to boot. ) while criterion released it in conjunction with another war themed russian classic and ballad of a soldier (1959)  which my pal at the local dvd rental outlet has told me is forthcoming. the only other film i have watched from this director is the arctic epic the red tent (1969 while albeit via the much shorter u. s. release version. ) and a star studded international production based on true events while given the unmistakable artistic quality of the cranes are flying and i regret missing out now on his famous documentary i am cuba (1964) a number of times when i was in hollywood late last year represent apart from receiving a one week theatrical run and it was shown more than once on tv accompanied by a feature length making of. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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