2024
8.0 (2 votes)
1h 35m
Genres
Adventure
Drama
Production Companies
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Saysary Cinema
Sakhafilm
Saysary Cinema
Sakhafilm
Where the White Cranes Dance (Там, где танцуют стерхи)
Overview
Yakutia in the 1960s. A boy named Vanya returns home after spending six years in hospitals following a spinal injury. However, the happiness of his reunited family is short-lived: his mother dies in childbirth. To comfort the children, their father tells them about a distant, magical land where Siberian cranes dance, explaining that their mother has transformed into one of those beautiful and sacred birds. From that moment, Vanya dreams of witnessing the rare dance of Siberian cranes and meeting his mother, reborn as a bird.
Key Crew
Director: Mikhail Lukachevsky
Producer: Semen Amanatov, Mikhail Lukachevsky
Writer: Alexey Ambrosyev
