The Cranes are Flying | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE

★ Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival (1958)

Boris goes to the front and Veronika is left behind to survive bombing, displacement and a marriage she is pressured into while she waits for news. Mikhail Kalatozov and cameraman Sergei Urusevsky shoot her ordeal with a restless handheld camera that made the film famous.

Why it's free: Free on Mosfilm's own channel; Mosfilm holds the rights to the Soviet-era library it publishes.