The Cranes Are Flying

“And it reminds me of another film that I really want to find, which is Cranes Are Flying. Again, about World War Two and the human impact of the war on the Soviet psyche, but also on anyone. So these two movies, I think, are an excellent but also devastating double bill that I will be doing very soon.”

“The Cranes Are Flying. Oddly enough, this was one of our biggest visual references when we were making The Studio. We referenced it a lot. It has a lot of amazing long takes, long shots. A pretty wide lens. Think it is the same DP who did Soy Cuba. And, yeah, we reference that both verbally and visually in the show as well.”

“The Cranes Are Flying. I'd seen I Am Cuba and Letter Never Sent and then my friend Mustafa the Poet recommended this to me. So this is going in for you and for me. It was part of my research too for Masters of the Air because I just watched all these war movies and Russian war movies.”

“The Cranes Are Flying is in my Criterion top 10, and it's just one of the most swooningly romantic and expressionistic films I've seen. It's by Mikhail Kalatozov, who also did Soy Cuba, I Am Cuba.”

“Are the cranes flying oh my goodness... Cranes are flying that you know I mean the famous stairway shot you know this shot right yes no it's just incredible cranes are flying...”