Walking the Streets of Moscow is a beautiful movie. The cinematography, the acting, the music, the cast, the story. Young Nikita Mikhalkov[0] is excellent as the lead. Almost like if Ferris Bueller's Day Off was Soviet Socialist Realism, or something. So much in that one film. I love how it's framed by the digging of the metro.

Haven't seen the other movies except The Cranes are Flying. Thank you for those suggestions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Mikhalkov