The Cranes Are Flying (1957) on Netflix
In Moscow, Veronika and Boris plan a meeting at the river. Germany invades, Boris volunteers for the front, and the two never manage a goodbye. Veronika stays behind and waits.
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Plot summary
Veronika and Boris are in love in Moscow. On June 22, 1941, they watch the cranes pass over the city at sunrise and plan to meet at the river bank. That same day the Germans invade, and Boris volunteers for the army. By the time Veronika reaches his apartment he has already gone, and his grandmother gives her the birthday gift he left behind, a stuffed squirrel with a note hidden inside. She searches the assembly station, but his unit has marched. When a German air raid destroys her building and kills her parents, Boris's family takes her in, and Boris's cousin Mark makes his feelings for her known. Veronika keeps writing to Boris and waits for word from the front.
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- Aleksandr Popovas Borya
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
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- At Cannes in 1958, The Cranes Are Flying became the only Soviet film ever to win the Palme d'Or; the prize's predecessor, the Grand Prix, had been shared by eleven films in 1946, among them The Turning Point.
- The film's lead actress Tatiana Samoilova remembered being given a watch by her East German fans during a festival there; it was inscribed "Finally we see on the Soviet screen a face, not a mask".
