Documentary

'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

Name: 'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-03-24
Cast: Ian Christie

0.0(0) 3/24/2020 0h 19m

Documentary

Film scholar Ian Christie unpacks why 'The Cranes Are Flying' is such a landmark of Soviet cinema, breaking away as it did from decades of forcibly pro-state propaganda with its focus on individual tragedy and its ambivalence about the heroism of war.

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Ian Christie

Self

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Kim HendricksonExecutive Producer Peter BeckerExecutive Producer Fumiko TakagiExecutive Producer Jonathan TurellExecutive Producer Elizabeth PaukerProducer

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The Criterion Collection

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