The Cranes Are Flying

For Screen and Country

Continuing the trend of getting off-track, Jason presents this week's episode with a very catchy gameshow title: Is This a War Movie or is This War Movie Not a War Movie? to discuss the films intentionally left off the PASTE Magazine list for not being about WAR enough! This week's film is the Soviet post-Stalin production The Cranes Are Flying - will it be a war movie? Or will this movie not be a war movie? You will find out! Also - gorgeous, groundbreaking cinematography, flawless film restoration, Veronika being a huge influence on other female protagonists, the stark set design and much, much more!

Next week: Back to the list and back to the American Civil War!

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The Cranes Are Flying stars Tatiana Samoilova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Svetlana Kharitonova, Valentin Zubkov and Aleksandr Shvorin; directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.

Is It Streaming?

USA: Max and Criterion Channel.

Canada: Criterion Channel.

UK: N/A

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