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Normandy - Neman (1960)

Normandy - Neman (1960)

Drama War
Release Date: 1960, February 24
Directors: Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh, Jean Dréville
Countries: France, Soviet Union
Production: Franco London Films, Les Films Alkam, Mosfilm
Cast: Gérard Buhr, Vladimir Gusev, Georges Rivière, Vladimir Seleznyov, Valentin Gaft, Marc Cassot, Yuri Medvedev, Roland Chalosse, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Nikolai Lebedev, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Pierre Trabaud

Overview:

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...