

The Cranes Are Flying(1957)
"The compelling story of a girl's impassioned search for happiness."
Overview
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
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Tatyana Samoylova
Veronika

Aleksey Batalov
Boris

Vasili Merkuryev
Fyodor Ivanovich

Aleksandr Shvorin
Mark

Svetlana Kharitonova
Irina

Konstantin Kadochnikov
Volodya

Valentin Zubkov
Stepan

Antonina Bogdanova
Grandmother

Boris Kokovkin
Chernov

Ekaterina Kupriyanova
Anna Mikhaylovna

Valentina Ananina
Lyuba

Valentina Vladimirova
Woman Soldier

Olga Dzisko
Dasha

Leonid Knyazev
Sachkov

Georgiy Kulikov
Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin

Daniil Netrebin
Wounded Man
Aleksandr Popov
Borya

Irina Preis
Antonina Nikolayevna Monastyrskaya

Nikolay Smorchkov
Zakharov

Galina Stepanova
Veronika's Mother

Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova
Guest at Party

Georgiy Shamshurin
Aleksey, Veronika's Father
Leonid Alekseev
Old Man (uncredited)

Valentina Berezutskaya
Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)

Maya Bulgakova
Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
Lidiya Vinogradova
Woman Soldier (uncredited)

Lidiya Genel-Ablova
Old Woman (uncredited)

Aleksandr Degtyar
Soldier with Child (uncredited)

Anatoliy Dudorov
Military Man (uncredited)
Tamara Evgeneva-Ivanova
Guest at Party (uncredited)

Ivan Zalesskiy
(uncredited)

Anna Zarzhitskaya
Palyukaitis (uncredited)
Maria Klyuchareva
Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)

Yuri Komissarov
Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
(uncredited)
Yevgeniya Lyzhina
(uncredited)

Alevtina Rumyantseva
Young Woman (uncredited)

Mikhail Semenikhin
Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)

Lyubov Sokolova
Woman Soldier (uncredited)

Lyubov Studneva
Stepan's Mother (uncredited)

Vasiliy Fushchich
Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)

Vasiliy Tsygankov
Soldier (uncredited)

Yevgeni Kudryashov
Guest at party (uncredited)
Anatoli Chebotaryov
(uncredited)
Leonid Alekseev
Old man (uncredited)
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