Normandy - Neman

Normandie - Niémen (1960)

Timing: 2:0 (120 min)

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Release date

1960-02-24

Country

France, SU

Production

Mosfilm, Franco London Films, Les Films Alkam

Genre

Drama, War

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Director

Jean Dréville, Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh

Actors

Pierre Trabaud, Giani Esposito, Gérard Buhr, Vladimir Gusev, Nikolai Rybnikov, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Yuri Medvedev, Georges Rivière, Marc Cassot, Vitali Doronin
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Scenario

Elsa Triolet, Charles Spaak, Konstantin Simonov

Producer

Operator

Jacques Natteau

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Editing

Borys Lewin
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A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they have reached Moscow they resume training and form a squadron they call "Normandie". Reinforced in 1944, the squadron wins many victories. Following the acts of valor displayed by its pilots during the Battle of the Nieman River, it becomes the "Normandie-Niemen" squadron for the rest of times...

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