"Actor: Aleksey Batalov"

• The Cranes Are Flying | DVD | (05/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This moving WW2 drama deservedly won the 1958 Cannes Palme d'Or and reintroduced Soviet cinema to the outside world as well as being a huge domestic box office hit. The film looks at the impact of the war on the participants: the lovers who fail to say their farewells prior to Boris's departure through unfortunate circumstances; his surgeon father who has to continue caring for his patients and the shifty cousin trying to avoid the conflict altogether.