East Baton Rouge Parish Library

The cranes are flying, Leti︠a︡t zhuravli, Mosfilʹm ; directed by Mikhail Kalatozov ; screenplay, Viktor Rozov

Title information from opening framesBased on the play Vechno zhivye by Viktor RozovOriginally released as a motion picture in 1957Full screen (1.37:1)Special features: new interview with scholar Ian Christie on why the film is a landmark of Soviet cinema; audio interview from 1961 with director Mikhail Kalatozov; Hurricane Kalatozov, a documentary from 2009 on the Georgian director's complex relationship with the Soviet government; segment from a 2008 program about the film's cinematography, featuring original storyboards and an interview with actor Alexei Batalov; interview from 2001 with filmmaker Claude Lelouch on the film's French premiere at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival; an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Photography, Sergei Urusevsky ; music, Moisei Vainberg

other

DVD special edition.

9781681437057

videodisc

Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov

1 videodisc (96 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12)

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)1137549025

DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby monaural

715515243117

CC3126DDVD -- The Criterion Collection

DVD