#Aleksandr Shvorin

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The Cranes are Flying (1958)

Immediately after our viewing of Soy Cuba, my viewing companion started reading about the director, Mikhail Kalatozov, and discovered that he had also previously directed Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes are Flying), and that it had won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1958. We checked to see if it was on the Criterion streaming service and discovered that it was, and immediately made plans to watch it as…

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'The Cranes are Flying' – love and death in wartime Russia on Max and Criterion Channel

Mikhail Kalatozov, most famous today for his daring cinematic essay I Am Cuba, was something of a throwback to the silent Soviet masters when he made his breakthrough film, The Cranes are Flying (Soviet Union, 1957). It’s the story of almond-eyed brunette beauty Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova) and idealistic architecture student Boris (Aleksei Batalov), who are in the throws of young love and…

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i like your choice for the petr fancast. Very petr vibes. my petr fancast was aleksandr shvorin but hes long dead akdksksk though to be fair i did a 60s-80s fancasting

yeah, i was very pleased when i saw kyle chandler and my mind immediately went "oh! petr fancast!". i saw him on the movie game night and not only is he pretty physically similar, he also had such petr vibes there, so it was meant to be for me.

oh, i don't know him, but i looked him up and he definitely has that rakish petr smile down lmao. and as for the small detail of being alive or not, oh who cares really. my fancast picks for romus and pabel are james stewart and matthew macfadyen, respectively. impossible? very. but my vision transcends time and space, thank you very much.

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Battle Beyond the Sun (1959) Sci-Fi Adventure Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Linda Barrett from I AM STREAMING on Vimeo.

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The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

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LETYAT ZHURAVLI (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)

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Aleksey Batalov and Tatyana Samoylova in The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) Cast: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Valentin Zubkov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ekaterina Kupriyanova. Screenplay: Viktor Rozov, based on his play. Cinematography: Sergey Urusevskiy. Production design: Evgeniy Svidetelev. Film editing: Mariya Timofeevna. Music: Moisey Vaynberg. The Cranes Are Flying was received enthusiastically on its international release in 1957, partly as a sign of a thaw between the Soviet Union and the West. Among other things, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Today, I think it's more likely to be judged for its visuals and its almost formalist construction than for the well-worn theme of its narrative, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of war. From the beginning I was struck by the compositions of cinematographer Sergey Urusefskiy, an evocative use of diagonals, framing the lovers Veronika (the extraordinary Tatyana Samoylova) and Boris (Aleksey Batalov) within the angles made by bridges and causeways, roads and ramps and staircases, all of which echo the image evoked in the title: the V-shaped flight of migrating cranes. Director Mikhail Kalatozov uses the image of flying cranes at the beginning of the film, almost as a harbinger of the coming war, and again at the end of the film, this time precisely as an image of returning peace. The V of the flying cranes at the beginning is soon mocked by the X of anti-tank barriers set up in the wartime street. But his entire film is structured of such echoes, including the crowds that weep at the departure of soldiers and at the end weep at their return -- or failure to do so. The film is full of beautifully staged moments, such as the return of Veronika to her home after a bombing raid. She has taken shelter in the subway but her family hasn't, and she rushes into the bombed-out building, climbs the burning stairs, and opens a door to nothingness, with only a dangling lampshade to recall the scene that had taken place in the apartment before. There are striking cuts, such as the one of feet walking across broken glass in a bombed apartment that's followed immediately by a soldier's feet slogging through mud. This particular cut also serves to link two key moments in the film: Veronika's rape by Boris's cousin Mark (Aleksandr Shvorin) and Boris's death from a sniper's bullet. The Cranes Are Flying can be faulted for melodramatic excesses: Veronika's decision to marry her rapist doesn't come out of any perceptible necessity, and the failure to report Boris as dead rather than missing seems there only to heighten her futile hope that he will return to her. But if you're going to be melodramatic, you should embrace it as whole-heartedly as Kalatazov does.

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Battle Beyond the Sun is the English-dubbed and re-edited U.S. version of Nebo Zovyot, a 1959 Soviet science fiction film. Roger Corman acquired the Soviet film for US distribution and hired a young film-school student named Francis Ford Coppola to Americanize it.[1] It is still a tale of the "space race", of two nations competing to become the first to land a spacecraft on the planet Mars, but switches the competing nations, via the dubbing, from the USSR and the USA to the fictional future countries of North Hemis and South Hemis. The names of not only the Soviet characters, but also their performers, and the crew credits as well, were altered on the screen to American-sounding names in order to further disguise the film's origins: thus Soviet stars Aleksandr Shvorin and Ivan Pereverzev became "Andy Stewart" and "Edd Perry", and Soviet directors Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr became "Maurice Kaplin" and "Arthur Corwin" - and were demoted to Assistant Director status as well. The advertising and release print's designated Director is given as Thomas Colchart; sources vary as to whom that name actually belongs (Karyukov and/or Kozyr, Coppola, or a hired American dubbing director).

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[Last Film I Watch] The Cranes Are Flying (1957) [9/10]

[Last Film I Watch] The Cranes Are Flying (1957) [9/10]

English Title: The Cranes Are Flying Original Title: Letyat zhuravli Year: 1957 Country: Soviet Union Language: Russian Genre: Drama, Romance, War Director: Mikhail Kalatozov Screenwriter: Viktor Rozov based on his own play Music: Moisey Vaynberg Cinematography: Sergey Urusevskiy Cast: Tatyana Samoylova Aleksey Batalov Aleksandr Shvorin Vasiliy Merkurev Svetlana Kharitonova Valentin Zubkov Boris…

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Mark (Aleksandr Shvorin) tries to take advantage of the air raid, “The Cranes are Flying” (1957), dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

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Nothing like an air raid to lighten an incredibly tense situation *sarcasm*, “The Cranes are Flying” (1957), dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

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“The Cranes are Flying” (1957), dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

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'The trouble is not all of them will come back. For those who don't, we'll build a monument reaching to the sky with every one of their names in gold', “The Cranes are Flying” (1957), dir. Mikhail Kalatozov