The Cranes Are Flying

Movie

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.

Date: 10/12/1957

Rating: 7.9

Cast: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Valentin Zubkov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ekaterina Kupriyanova, Valentina Ananina, Valentina Vladimirova, Olga Dzisko, Leonid Knyazev, Georgiy Kulikov, Daniil Netrebin, Aleksandr Popov, Irina Preis, Nikolay Smorchkov, Galina Stepanova, Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova, Georgiy Shamshurin, Leonid Alekseyev, Valentina Berezutskaya, Maya Bulgakova, Lidiya Vinogradova, Lidiya Genel-Ablova, Aleksandr Degtyar, Anatoliy Dudorov, Tamara Evgeneva-Ivanova, Ivan Zalesskiy, Anna Zargitckaia, Maria Klyuchareva, Yuri Komissarov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Yevgeniya Lyzhina, Alevtina Rumyantseva, Mikhail Semenikhin, Lyubov Sokolova, Lyubov Studneva, Vasiliy Fushchich, Vasiliy Tsygankov, Yevgeni Kudryashov

Tatyana Samoylova