The Cranes Are Flying

“The compelling story of a girl's impassioned search for happiness.”

Boris (Aleksey Batalov) leaves Moscow for the front, and Veronika (Tatyana Samoylova) stays behind to write to him every day. When a bomb destroys her home, she moves in with his family, where his cousin Mark (Aleksandr Shvorin) has plans of his own. Kalatozov's film comes down to the two of them, and the promise they made on the river before the war took him.