Watch The Cranes Are Flying

Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.

The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.

A married woman, a cavalry officer and a train; "all happy families are alike".

A divorcing couple's son goes missing while they argue; Zvyagintsev's coldest film.

A bored dandy rejects Tatyana and regrets it; Pushkin's novel in verse.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.

Two married people meet in Yalta expecting a holiday affair and find they cannot end it; the story modern short fiction is measured against.

The 2003 original: three armies through the Second World War, and squads that shout.