Georgian born Sovjet author Mikhail Kalatozov created three sequential masterpieces in eight years, following “Khrushchev’s Thaw” with The Cranes are Flying, Letter Never Sent and I Am Cuba. Paradoxically, these cinematic outings feel at once contemporary and yet completely universal in their depiction of the human experience. As both a director and a cinematographer, Kalatozov seems to transcend his films’ narrative subject with extraordinary camera movements, visceral performances and a focus on the maelstrom of history bearing down on the individual. The beauty of this medium is that anyone can make a movie but few directors possess the gift to create true cinema in a way that stirs the soul quite as Kalatozov does. In association with Eye Filmmuseum, we’re proud to present these three films beautifully restored and ready to be (re)discovered.