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The Cranes Are Flying
December 1, 2020 @ 8:00 am - February 7, 2021 @ 11:59 pm
WWII: Beyond the Battlefields – Center for European Studies Series Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II
free online film screening
https://ces.ufl.edu/outreach/community/film-screenings/
available through 2/7/21
A Soviet film about World War II. It depicts the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Soviet psyche as a result of World War II (known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War). It was directed at Mosfilm by the Georgian-born Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and stars Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. It was adapted by Viktor Rozov from his play. It won the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the only Soviet film to win that award.