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The Cranes Are Flying
Why this pick
Like Käutner’s film, it treats war through one woman’s intimate emotional ordeal, using lyrical black-and-white imagery and a deeply humane focus rather than battlefield spectacle.
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MOVIE1954 1h 42m AUT
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Maria Schell
Dr. Helga Reinbeck
Bernhard Wicki
Boro
Barbara Rütting
Militza
Carl Möhner
Martin Berger
Pavle Minčić
Momcillo
Horst Hächler
Leutnant Scherer
Robert Meyn
Stabsartz Dr. Rottsieper
Zvonko Zungul
Partisan Sava