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The Cranes Are Flying
Why this pick
Like Ballad of a Soldier, it finds immense wartime grief in intimate civilian lives, with lyrical black-and-white imagery and a deeply humane focus on love tested by separation.
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MOVIE1959 1h 29m RUS
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A middle-aged farm woman walks through her village and gazes down a country road. A voiceover reveals that her son was killed in the war and buried in a foreign land.
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