EXPERIENCE OF SYSTEM CINEMA STUDY OF THE MOVIE “THE CRANES ARE FLYING”

The article provides a film analysis of the movie "The Cranes Are Flying", created in 1957 by a team of Soviet creative figures – director Mikhail Kalatozov, cameraman Sergei Urusevsky, screenwriter Viktor Rozov, composer Moisei Weinberg. The methodology of the study was the philosophical and art history analysis of works of art by V.I. Zhukovsky and N.P. Koptseva and the method of system film analysis by G. Korte. According to the results of the study, artistic differences were revealed between the text of the play by V. Rozov "Forever Alive", which is the basis of the script, and the plot of the film "The Cranes Are Flying"; analyzed the key characters of the film and the features of their representation on the screen with the help of visual images; the aesthetic features of the key scenes of the film are identified and analyzed, and it is also established that the film is a masterpiece of the world cinema art, as it contains the transition to the symbolic status of an artistic image.