Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Film Screening: The Cranes are Flying @ National Gallery of Art
by Svetlana 
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| June 29, 2008 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
The Cranes Are Flying
June 29 at 2:00
free
details here:
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/envisioning_russia.shtm
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
Lovers Tatiana Samoilova and Alexei Batalov stroll through quiet Moscow streets as cranes fly overhead. The year is 1941, however, and war brings death, rape, desertion, draft-dodging, and black-marketeering—topics decidedly taboo during the Stalinist years. Filmed by director Mikhail Kalatozov and photographer Sergei Urushevsky using equally taboo techniques (helicopter and crane shots, crowd scenes, and endless takes) this first postwar Soviet film to attain wide commercial release in the West also won the Cannes Festival Palme d’Or. (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957, Russian with subtitles, 35 mm, 97 minutes)
