A special event in Soviet cinemabecame the premiere of the film "The Cranes Are Flying". Actors after the release of the film gained worldwide fame. An important role in the creation of films was played by camera work. As for the plot, there was no lyricism in the national cinema about the war until the premiere of the film “The Cranes Are Flying”. Actors and film roles are the topic of the article.
History of creation
Mikhail Kalatozov - director of the film “Flycranes. Actors - Alexey Batalov and Tatyana Samoilova. Once Mikhail Kalatozov got into the hands of a literary magazine with the work of Rozov. The play was called "Eternally Alive." The next day, the director talked with the author of the work. Rozov had never written scripts before, but nevertheless he unconditionally agreed.
Plot
What does the film "The Cranes Fly"?The actors who played in it, created a piercing duet. The first episode shows the night of June 22. Boris and Veronica - the heroes of the picture - are walking along the Moscow embankment. Cranes fly in the sky ...
Актеры удивительно гармонично смотрятся на экране.Perhaps this is the success of this domestic drama. The film begins with a description of the first day of the war. Boris can use the reservation, but does not do it, and goes to the front. In parting, he gives Veronica a toy in the form of a squirrel. This is the only thing the girl has left after the bombing of the house where her parents are killed.
There is no news from Boris.The heroine Samoilova marries, for which, after the premiere of the film will be subjected to angry criticism. The husband of Veronica is a relative of Boris, who received a reservation for pull. When Veronica finds out who her husband really is, divorces him. In addition, while working at the hospital, she learns how the soldiers of brides who did not wait for their suitors from the front hate. Veronica is trying to throw herself off the bridge, but suddenly she sees a boy who almost gets under the wheels of the truck. The girl saves the child. The boy's name is Boris. The heroine Samoilova takes him to her home.
Veronica is waiting for Boris. She believes that he is alive.Until a train with front-line soldiers arrives in Moscow. Veronica is on the station platform and distributes flowers to those who have returned. And cranes are flying over Moscow at these moments ...
Actors
For the role of Veronica, the director initially wantedapprove Elena Dobronravov. But once the operator saw Samoilova in one of the films and showed her photo to Kalatozov. The director approved the candidacy of a young actress. He doubted that Samoilova could play a tragic role in the film Cranes Are Flying, only the writer Rozov. However, after the picture came out on the screens, he realized that his doubts were unfounded.
On the role of Boris Alexey was approved without trial.Batalov. Later, the actor suggested that Kalatozov invited him to shoot in his picture precisely because he organically looked alongside Samoilova.
After the premiere of the film actress received a lotproposals not only from domestic directors, but also from foreign ones. But as you know, the Soviet artist act in a foreign film was almost impossible. Other actors who took part in the shooting:
- Alexander Shvorin.
- Vasily Merkuryev.
- Antonina Bogdanova.
- Valentin Zubkov.
Camera work
The work of Urusevsky was selfless.The operator went to the unthinkable sacrifices in order to create an unusual, bright frame. In those years, the equipment used by filmmakers, only remotely resembled modern. For Urusevsky they built a special device in which he was during the shooting of the famous episode, when the hero Batalov climbs up the stairs. The operator shot the actor, and at that time he was lifted up on special ropes. The death of Boris to capture on film was even more difficult.
Artists were also given the shooting is not easy. Samoilova contracted tuberculosis. The actress was given injections every three hours. Batalov during one of the shootings fell and cut his face.
The film "The Cranes Are Flying," whose actors and rolespresented in the article, received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was watched in America, France, England. Artists who played the main characters, became famous throughout the world. Samoilova could participate in the filming of several foreign paintings. But she was not allowed to go abroad.
Kinolenta Kalatozova became a classic of Soviet cinema. This picture combines lyricism, patriotism, motives of loyalty and devotion. There are few such films about the war in the national cinema.
