The Cranes Are Flying
Летят журавли
Release: 1957-10-12
·Runtime: 97m
·★ 7.9
Drama
Romance
War
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Maya Bulgakova
as Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
Lidiya Genel-Ablova
as Old Woman (uncredited)
Daniil Netrebin
as Wounded Man
Yuri Komissarov
as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Lyubov Sokolova
as Woman Soldier (uncredited)
Vasili Merkuryev
as Fyodor Ivanovich
Valentina Berezutskaya
as Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)
Aleksandr Degtyar
as Soldier with Child (uncredited)
Boris Kokovkin
as Chernov
Ekaterina Kupriyanova
as Anna Mikhaylovna
Valentina Ananina
as Lyuba
Leonid Knyazev
as Sachkov
Georgiy Kulikov
as Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin
Svetlana Kharitonova
as Irina
Anatoliy Dudorov
as Military Man (uncredited)
Ivan Zalesskiy
as (uncredited)
Mikhail Semenikhin
as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Vasiliy Fushchich
as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Lyubov Studneva
as Stepan's Mother (uncredited)
Aleksey Batalov
as Boris
Aleksandr Shvorin
as Mark
Valentin Zubkov
as Stepan
Valentina Vladimirova
as Woman Soldier
Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova
as Guest at Party
Anna Zarzhitskaya
as Palyukaitis (uncredited)
Vasiliy Tsygankov
as Soldier (uncredited)
Tatyana Samoylova
as Veronika
Galina Stepanova
as Veronika's Mother
Georgiy Shamshurin
as Aleksey, Veronika's Father
Alevtina Rumyantseva
as Young Woman (uncredited)
Yevgeni Kudryashov
as Guest at party (uncredited)
Konstantin Kadochnikov
as Volodya
Antonina Bogdanova
as Grandmother
Olga Dzisko
as Dasha
Irina Preis
as Antonina Nikolayevna Monastyrskaya
Nikolay Smorchkov
as Zakharov
