The Heron and the Crane
1974·Animation·10m
7.1
★
Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.
Directed by Yuri Norstein
crane
based on myths, legends or folklore
interspecies romance
short film
heron
IMDB
N/A
Cast
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Narrator (Voice)
Crew
Yuri Norstein
Director
Yuri Norstein
Screenplay
Roman Kachanov
Writer
Yuri Norstein
Writer
Mikhail Meerovich
Original Music Composer
Nadezhda Treshchyova
Editor
Natan Bitman
Producer
Natalya Abramova
Script Editor
Yuri Norstein
Animation
Francheska Yarbusova
Art Direction
Boris Filchikov
Sound
Popular Reviews
17 reviews
goblinPRO
7.0★ · 11/18/25
tragic lavender couple
tragic lavender couple
Lewis
6.0★ · 07/02/25
Can yall please stop fumbling
Can yall please stop fumbling
zeynep
8.0★ · 08/21/24
love bombing, gaslighting, ghosting but do it with birds and wildly perfectionist animation style
love bombing, gaslighting, ghosting but do it with birds and wildly perfectionist animation style
Gabriel Silva
6.8★ · 01/31/24
Yuri Norstein’s stop motion paper cutouts have always been endlessly charming and the animation in The Heron and the Crane is no different. The illustrative storybook feel that this gives his work a signature charm is incredibly apt here, as the titular Heron and Crane go back and forth, trying and failing to woo the other with prospects of marriage. Ten minutes of such a back and forth could potentially get boring, but eventually Norstein starts representing a lot of this back and forth with new visual presentations of the proposal and the reject and the reconsideration. It’s cute even if a little sad.
Yuri Norstein’s stop motion paper cutouts have always been endlessly charming and the animation in The Heron and the Crane is no different. The illustrative storybook feel that this gives his work a signature charm is incredibly apt here, as the titular Heron and Crane go back and forth, trying and failing to woo the other with prospects of marriage. Ten minutes of such a back and forth could potentially get boring, but eventually Norstein starts representing a lot of this back and forth with new visual presentations of the proposal and the reject and the reconsideration. It’s cute even if a little sad.
Lochlan Ashton
6.0★ · 08/23/20
Both of them should of just said yes but still look nice and was something different.
Both of them should of just said yes but still look nice and was something different.