The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany's surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers - the sensitive Veronika and the stalwart Boris - are parted after the patriotic lad secretly volunteers for the war effort. During the following hard years, Veronika who serves her country as a wartime nurse will lose communication with Boris. After a devastating air raid destroys her house and Boris' father takes her in to live with the family, unexpectedly, things will take a turn for the worse. Before long, the worried fiancée will find herself dealing not only with the dark thoughts of Boris' potential loss but also with the burden of an unwelcome decision. Once, the star-crossed lovers swore eternal devotion under a flock of flying cranes but still, a war is always cruel and eternally disastrous.

Mikhail Kalatozov

Viktor Rozov

Aleksandr Popov Aleksandr Shvorin Aleksey Batalov Antonina Bogdanova Boris Kokovkin Daniil Netrebin Ekaterina Kupriyanova Georgiy Kulikov Irina Preys Konstantin Kadochnikov Leonid Knyazev Mikhail Kalatozov Olga Dzisko Svetlana Kharitonova Tatyana Samoylova Valentin Zubkov Valentina Ananina Valentina Vladimirova Vasiliy Merkurev Viktor Rozov