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Sandy

I hate this movie. It's going directly into my top 100.I hate that it makes my heart hurt so much and how the camera work makes me dizzy and nauseous at the horrors of war.I hate that the sharpness of some of the images stings my eyes, especially those of her eyes and in hearing the word Nyet, over and over to no avail.I hate the condemnation and perpetual self hatred and to what depths and lengths they'll carry the burden of them.I hate that Anna never gets a chance to answer the question, "What is the meaning of life?" Because, I really needed to know. Instead, I'm left fumbling right along with the movie, wondering.I hate how unsettled I feel and how adrift...I love that I hate it, for it's cinema at its finest and most confronting.

CinemaShadow5.0

If you've watched a more beautiful B&W film than this then consider yourself very lucky. The cinematography in The Cranes Are Flying is the heart and soul of the movie but it'd also be unfair to not acknowledge the timeless and moving love story it captures along with Tatiana Samoilova great performance. This really should be on the syllabus of all film classes.

noen5.0

One of the best films of Soviet cinema I’ve ever seen, is a seminal work that spectacularly creates a visual symphony that transcends the limits of a narrative we’ve already seen in other films. Each piece of this film is so detailed, with cinematography that masterfully accompanies the deep immersion of the raw emotions of love and loss in the midst of the tumultuous and destructive World War II. Director Kalatozov presents us with a frighteningly yet beautiful narrative about the fragility of human feelings and abandonment, but also about the power of hope in the face of an imminent disgrace.