Die Kraniche ziehen (1957)
6K Drama Genre Romance War Aleksandr Popov Aleksandr Shvorin Aleksey Batalov Antonina Bogdanova Boris Kokovkin Daniil Netrebin Ekaterina Kupriyanova Galina Stepanova Georgiy Kulikov Irina Preys Konstantin Kadochnikov Leonid Knyazev Mikhail Kalatozov Nikolay Smorchkov Olga Dzisko Svetlana Kharitonova Tatyana Samoylova Valentin Zubkov Valentina Ananina Valentina Vladimirova Vasiliy Merkurev Viktor Rozov 1957 7.9 East Germany Mikhail Kalatozov Russian
Die Kraniche ziehen: Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. With Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin. Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
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