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 indiv... Read allFilm 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.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.