mikhail kalatozov the crane be fly be a superb film . winner of the golden palm at cannes film festival and it have an excellent cinematography and performance by tatyana samojlova and the only russian actor ever to win an award in cannes for a performance . she play veronika and a teenager in love with her boyfriend and happy and without preoccupation and with plan of get married . her life will get upside down when world war ii strike and her boyfriend volunteer to the army . the film depict the effect of war on a teenager love and on the people that stay and saw their loved one go and fight and wait for a letter or other information . it be a portrayal of lose innocence . samojlova do a magnificent job and and her character transformation will break your heart . the camera movement be fast with a lot of close ups and it be a dance camera . the first scene in the stair be fantastic and but it isn not the only one and there be later a scene when veronika attempt commit suicide and and another and in my opinion one of the most powerful scene in movie history and the bombing of veronika house when she run the stair in the middle of fire and to find her apartment completely destroy . simply great . positive .