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'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

  • Documentary
RELEASE

2020-03-24

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LENGTH

19 min

Description

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.