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
Irina Preis
as Antonina Nikolayevna Monastyrskaya
Lidiya Genel-Ablova
as Old Woman (uncredited)
Aleksandr Degtyar
as Soldier with Child (uncredited)
Anatoliy Dudorov
as Military Man (uncredited)
Alevtina Rumyantseva
as Young Woman (uncredited)
Lyubov Sokolova
as Woman Soldier (uncredited)
Boris Kokovkin
as Chernov
Valentina Ananina
as Lyuba
Georgiy Kulikov
as Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin
Nikolay Smorchkov
as Zakharov
Yevgeni Kudryashov
as Guest at party (uncredited)
Lyubov Studneva
as Stepan's Mother (uncredited)
Vasiliy Fushchich
as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Aleksey Batalov
as Boris
Konstantin Kadochnikov
as Volodya
Georgiy Shamshurin
as Aleksey, Veronika's Father
Maya Bulgakova
as Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
Aleksandr Shvorin
as Mark
Svetlana Kharitonova
as Irina
Valentin Zubkov
as Stepan
Ekaterina Kupriyanova
as Anna Mikhaylovna
Olga Dzisko
as Dasha
Ivan Zalesskiy
as (uncredited)
Yuri Komissarov
as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Valentina Vladimirova
as Woman Soldier
Daniil Netrebin
as Wounded Man
Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova
as Guest at Party
Valentina Berezutskaya
as Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)
Vasiliy Tsygankov
as Soldier (uncredited)
Tatyana Samoylova
as Veronika
Anna Zarzhitskaya
as Palyukaitis (uncredited)
Vasili Merkuryev
as Fyodor Ivanovich
Antonina Bogdanova
as Grandmother
Leonid Knyazev
as Sachkov
Galina Stepanova
as Veronika's Mother
