Where do cranes fly The girl from the orphanage Olya and the blind boy Maxim - the son of a very rich father. When everything begins in the spirit of comedy, you don’t expect anything special from such an already tired couple of heroes (a rich disabled person and a punchy poor person). However, this film surprises not only with good humor, but also with hidden sadness.
Olya and Maxim decide to escape to Crane Bay - Olya from the orphanage, Maxim from his father with his excessive custody. Crane Bay is an image of some edge of the world; it seems that you can no longer escape. If you look closely, then many of the characters of this film want to escape somewhere, in some fairy-tale world: young Dpsnik Valera - in the Hollywood world of brave American policemen, Maxim's mother - in an idyllic family with healthy children, rural youth - in the world of luxury with a red Ferrari.
The director skillfully and carefully leads high school characters through the surface of the real danger of far from fabulous life visible here, not allowing them to dive either into a fight with a crowd of hooligans, or into a drug dope, or into any other accident on their way in this original road movie. And this road you need to go exactly to the end - Maxim understands that at any time he can return to his father, but he also understands that only up to the last kilometer the path traveled will help him not to lose Olya - the only person for him with whom you can get into a real fairy tale.
7 out of 10
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