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The Cranes Are Flying - actors, characters and roles

All actors and their roles in the film "The Cranes Are Flying"

Летят журавли (1957)

Timing: 1:37 (97 min)

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Actors and characters

Tatyana Samoylova

Character Veronika

Aleksey Batalov

Character Boris

Vasili Merkuryev

Character Fyodor Ivanovich

Aleksandr Shvorin

Character Mark

Svetlana Kharitonova

Character Irina

Konstantin Kadochnikov

Character Volodya

Valentin Zubkov

Character Stepan

Antonina Bogdanova

Character Grandmother

Boris Kokovkin

Character Chernov

Ekaterina Kupriyanova

Character Anna Mikhaylovna

Valentina Ananina

Character Lyuba

Valentina Vladimirova

Character Woman Soldier

Olga Dzisko

Character Dasha

Leonid Knyazev

Character Sachkov

Georgiy Kulikov

Character Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin

Daniil Netrebin

Character Wounded Man

Aleksandr Popov

Character Borya

Irina Preis

Character Antonina Nikolayevna Monastyrskaya

Nikolay Smorchkov

Character Zakharov

Galina Stepanova

Character Veronika's Mother

Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova

Character Guest at Party

Georgiy Shamshurin

Character Aleksey, Veronika's Father

Leonid Alekseyev

Character Old Man (uncredited)

Valentina Berezutskaya

Character Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)

Maya Bulgakova

Character Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)

Lidiya Vinogradova

Character Woman Soldier (uncredited)

Lidiya Genel-Ablova

Character Old Woman (uncredited)

Aleksandr Degtyar

Character Soldier with Child (uncredited)

Anatoliy Dudorov

Character Military Man (uncredited)

Tamara Evgeneva-Ivanova

Character Guest at Party (uncredited)

Ivan Zalesskiy

Character (uncredited)

Anna Zarzhitskaya

Character Palyukaitis (uncredited)

Mariia Kliuchareva

Character Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)

Yuri Komissarov

Character Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Character (uncredited)

Yevgeniya Lyzhina

Character (uncredited)

Alevtina Rumyantseva

Character Young Woman (uncredited)

Mikhail Semenikhin

Character Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)

Lyubov Sokolova

Character Woman Soldier (uncredited)

Lyubov Studneva

Character Stepan's Mother (uncredited)

Vasiliy Fushchich

Character Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)

Vasiliy Tsygankov

Character Soldier (uncredited)

Evgeni Kudryashov

Character Guest at party (uncredited)

Anatoli Chebotaryov

Character (uncredited)

Leonid Alekseev

Character Old man (uncredited)

What's left behind the scenes

At the Cannes Film Festival, the film's title was translated into French as "When the Storks Fly"... The reason is that the original title, in French slang, means "prostitutes steal."
During the filming, a young, unknown French film enthusiast worked as a camera assistant for two days. He had arrived in Moscow with a tour group and accidentally ended up at the Mosfilm studio. He later became a famous film director. His name is Claude Lelouch.
The film is based on the play "Eternal Living" by Viktor Rozov.
The working title of the film was "For Your Life".
Veronika was originally going to be played by Elena Dobronravova. Mikhail Kalatozov's assistant saw Tatyana Samoylova in the film "The Mexican," and then recommended her to cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky, who in turn suggested her to director Kalatozov.
Nikita Khrushchev, after watching the film, angrily criticized it, calling the main character a "whore".
The film's triumph at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was reported with restraint in the USSR. A nameless article with no photographs in 'Izvestia' did not mention either the director or the film's screenwriter.
To film the scene of Boris's death, Sergei Urusevsky devised and first constructed circular camera rails.
During the filming of the scene where Veronika runs up the stairs in the bombed-out house of her parents, Tatyana Samoylova, who was suffering from tuberculosis, fainted.
The film is based on the play "Ever Living" by Viktor Rozov.
The working title of the film was "For Your Life."
Veronika was originally going to be played by Elena Dobronravova. Mikhail Kalatozov's assistant saw Tatyana Samoylova in the film "The Mexican," after which he recommended her to cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky, who then suggested her to director Kalatozov.
Nikita Khrushchev angrily criticized the film after watching it, calling the main character a 'whore'.

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