if you believe that any give war movie can make you really feel the war and you need to see letyat zhuravli ( call the crane be fly in english ) . it tell the story of veronika ( tatiana samoylova ) and boris ( aleksey batalov ) and who be in love on the verge of wwii . they be walk along the waterfront and watch the crane fly by and when the war start . boris be promptly send off to war . veronika hide out with a family and end up marry the son and whom she do not love . boris and meanwhile and continue trot through the countryside and fight the nazi and experience all the horror of war and until he he run out of energy . when veronika working in a military hospital receive this news and she refuse to accept it and until boris body arrive home on one of the train . simultaneously and the radio announce that germany have surrender and the allied power have win the war while the soviet union lose 27 million citizen and but it the start of a new era . this movie do a very good job show the human impact of the war not only in the battlefield and but also how it affect the civilian population . this be definitely a movie that everyone should see .