'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
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'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
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The Criterion Collection
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2020-03-24
'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema
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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