Mikhail Kalatozov CRANES ARE FLYING LETYAT ZHURAVLI Original double #142595

Description

The Cranes are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] (Original double weight photograph from the 1957 film)
Author:
Mikhail Kalatozov (director); Viktor Rozov (playwright, screenwriter); Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin (starring)
Title:
The Cranes are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] (Original double weight photograph from the 1957 film)
Publication:
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1957
Description:
Vintage oversize, double weight photograph from the 1957 film. From the archives of French weekly "Tele Magazine," with two stamps on the verso, one referencing its inclusion in issue 52, page 5, along with holograph annotations regarding layout and the French title.
Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay, about a young woman who must flee in the face of Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia, while feeling guilty over her missing lover, who unbeknownst to her has been killed in the war. Winner of the Palme d'Or, the only Soviet film to do so, while star Tatiana Samoylova would receive a Special Mention for her role, becoming a European film icon in the process.
12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good, with some light creasing.
Criterion Collection 146.
Seller ID:
142595
Subject:
1950s Cinema, Cannes Film Festival, Double weight photographs, European Cinema, Film Still Photographs, Films Based on Plays, Films with Literary Sources, Oversize photographs, Photographs, Russian Cinema, World War II
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