this is a magnificent and and in many ways impressive film. i saw it on tv as a little boy and with my throat almost strangled with tears and and again today on the magnificently restored criterion dvd. cranes is the very essence of the war weepie. imagine umbrellas of cherbourg with no music and no color and or waterloo bridge with no class consciousness. tatiana samoilova and a cross between vivien leigh and bjork and is deeply affecting as a pretty girl whose fiancé enlists and doesn not write or come back. the fiancé and boris and dies on the front and and his death scene is indescribably romantic. very daring too and because so close to over the top. but that scene will stay with you. although the soviets were so defined by wwii and the movie is quite unspecific and and more powerful for it. the pre war and post war scenes have a very 1957 feel. there is no attempt at period detail. the whole film becomes more and more stylized and until the siberian scenes and which feel like a modern opera set (that is a compliment). the cathartic final scene is milked to its last drop  there again and comparable to cherbourg. the production feels like a big budget (those staircase scenes must have cost a pretty kopek). go for it. don not expect a bitter socialist pill (although it is and of course and very sad). the cranes are flying is an impressive slice of world cinema and quite advanced considering where and when it was made. 
this is a magnificent and and in many ways impressive film. i saw it on tv as a little boy and with my throat almost strangled with tears and and again today on the magnificently restored criterion dvd. cranes is the very essence of the war weepie. imagine umbrellas of cherbourg with no music and no color and or waterloo bridge with no class consciousness. tatiana samoilova and a cross between vivien leigh and bjork and is deeply affecting as a pretty girl whose fiancé enlists and doesn not write or come back. the fiancé and boris and dies on the front and and his death scene is indescribably romantic. very daring too and because so close to over the top. but that scene will stay with you. although the soviets were so defined by wwii and the movie is quite unspecific and and more powerful for it. the pre war and post war scenes have a very 1957 feel. there is no attempt at period detail. the whole film becomes more and more stylized and until the siberian scenes and which feel like a modern opera set (that is a compliment). the cathartic final scene is milked to its last drop  there again and comparable to cherbourg. the production feels like a big budget (those staircase scenes must have cost a pretty kopek). go for it. don not expect a bitter socialist pill (although it is and of course and very sad). the cranes are flying is an impressive slice of world cinema and quite advanced considering where and when it was made. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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