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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>DVD Review <font size="4"><br><i>The Cranes are Flying</i> and <i>Ballad of a Soldier</i></font> <br>by David Ng</font> <p>Part grand entertainment, part love letter to the Motherland, the films of the post-Stalin "thaw" period of Soviet cinema (roughly 1956 to 1967) offer up a riptide of apolitical patriotism and big-sky romance. Two of the most famous films from that era, <i>The Cranes are Flying</i> and <i>Ballad of a Soldier</i>, are now available on DVD from the Criterion Collection. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>