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crew: 15
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# The Cranes Are Flying (1957): cast and crew

44 cast and 15 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Tatyana Samoylova](https://film.one/person/tatyana-samoylova.md) as Veronika
- [Aleksey Batalov](https://film.one/person/aleksey-batalov.md) as Boris
- [Vasili Merkuryev](https://film.one/person/vasili-merkuryev.md) as Fyodor Ivanovich
- [Aleksandr Shvorin](https://film.one/person/aleksandr-shvorin.md) as Mark
- [Svetlana Kharitonova](https://film.one/person/svetlana-kharitonova.md) as Irina
- [Konstantin Kadochnikov](https://film.one/person/konstantin-kadochnikov.md) as Volodya
- [Valentin Zubkov](https://film.one/person/valentin-zubkov.md) as Stepan
- [Antonina Bogdanova](https://film.one/person/antonina-bogdanova.md) as Grandmother
- [Boris Kokovkin](https://film.one/person/boris-kokovkin.md) as Chernov
- [Ekaterina Kupriyanova](https://film.one/person/ekaterina-kupriyanova.md) as Anna Mikhaylovna
- [Valentina Ananina](https://film.one/person/valentina-ananina.md) as Lyuba
- [Valentina Vladimirova](https://film.one/person/valentina-vladimirova.md) as Woman Soldier
- Olga Dzisko as Dasha
- Leonid Knyazev as Sachkov
- Georgiy Kulikov as Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Kuzmin
- Daniil Netrebin as Wounded Man
- Aleksandr Popov as Borya
- Irina Preis as Antonina Nikolayevna Monastyrskaya
- Nikolay Smorchkov as Zakharov
- Galina Stepanova as Veronika's Mother
- Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova as Guest at Party
- Georgiy Shamshurin as Aleksey, Veronika's Father
- Leonid Alekseev as Old Man (uncredited)
- Valentina Berezutskaya as Lyusya, Snub-Nosed Girl on Wires (uncredited)
- Maya Bulgakova as Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
- Lidiya Vinogradova as Woman Soldier (uncredited)
- Lidiya Genel-Ablova as Old Woman (uncredited)
- Aleksandr Degtyar as Soldier with Child (uncredited)
- Anatoliy Dudorov as Military Man (uncredited)
- Ivan Zalesskiy as (uncredited)
- Anna Zarzhitskaya as Palyukaitis (uncredited)
- Maria Klyuchareva as Greeter Woman on Station (uncredited)
- Yuri Komissarov as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov as (uncredited)
- Yevgeniya Lyzhina as (uncredited)
- Alevtina Rumyantseva as Young Woman (uncredited)
- Mikhail Semenikhin as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
- Lyubov Sokolova as Woman Soldier (uncredited)
- Lyubov Studneva as Stepan's Mother (uncredited)
- Vasiliy Fushchich as Wounded Man in Hospital (uncredited)
- Vasiliy Tsygankov as Soldier (uncredited)
- Yevgeni Kudryashov as Guest at party (uncredited)
- Anatoli Chebotaryov as (uncredited)
- Tamara Yevgenyeva-Ivanova as Guest at Party (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Mikhail Kalatozov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-kalatozov.md): Director
- Bela Fridman: First Assistant Director

## Writing

- Vadim Korostylyov: Lyricist
- [Viktor Rozov](https://film.one/person/viktor-rozov.md): Theatre Play, Screenplay

## Production

- Igor Vakar: Executive Producer

## Camera

- [Sergey Urusevsky](https://film.one/person/sergei-urusevsky.md): Director of Photography
- Nikolay Olonovskiy: First Assistant Camera

## Editing

- [Mariya Timofeyeva](https://film.one/person/mariya-timofeyeva.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Mieczysław Weinberg](https://film.one/person/mieczysaw-weinberg.md): Original Music Composer
- Arnold Roytman: Conductor
- Igor Mayorov: Sound Recordist
- Boris Vengerovsky: Sound Assistant

## Art

- [Yevgeni Svidetelev](https://film.one/person/yevgeni-svidetelev.md): Production Design

## Costume and make-up

- [Lidiya Naumova](https://film.one/person/lidiya-naumova.md): Costume Design
- Olga Struntsova: Key Makeup Artist

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