The Cranes are Flying

 

Year: 1957

Time: 95 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 146

Release Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

1.33:1

Russian PCM Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Insert featuring an essay by Chris Fujiwara   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