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...
Title | Normandy - Neman |
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Year | 1960 |
Genre | Drama, War |
Country | France, Soviet Union |
Studio | Franco London Films, Les Films Alkam, Mosfilm |
Cast | Pierre Trabaud, Giani Esposito, Gérard Buhr, Vladimir Gusev, Nikolai Rybnikov, Gennadiy Yukhtin |
Crew | José Padilla (Music), Rodion Shchedrin (Music), Jacques Natteau (Director of Photography), Borys Lewin (Editor), Alexandre Hinkis (Production Design), Aleksei Parkhomenko (Production Design) |
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Release | Feb 24, 1960 |
Runtime | 120 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 4.80 / 10 by 9 users |