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Mikhail Kalatozov or Mikheil Kalatozishvili (28 December 1903, Tbilisi – 27 March 1973, Moscow) began his career as an actor and cinematographer in the Soviet Union and soon thereafter began writing and directing his own films. Among his most famous and most important films are his four final features: Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes Are Flying, 1957); Neotpravlennoye pismo (The Unsent Letter, 1959); Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba, 1964); and Krasnaya palatka (The Red Tent, 1971). These are marked by very long, complex takes filled with startling, often surreal images and among the most virtuosic camerawork of that or any other era.
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