Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
12 audience votes
Key crew
- Jean DrévilleDirector
- Damir Vyatich-BerezhnykhDirector
- Elsa TrioletWriter
- Charles SpaakWriter
- Konstantin SimonovWriter
- José PadillaOriginal Music Composer
- Rodion ShchedrinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Pierre TrabaudLe lieutenant Chardon
- Giani EspositoLemaître
- Gérard BuhrLe capitaine de Liron
- Vladimir GusevLe lieutenant Zykov
- Nikolai RybnikovLe capitaine Tarasenko
- Gennadiy YukhtinTekhnik
- Yuri MedvedevLe sergent Ivanov
- Georges RivièreLe lieutenant Benoît
- Marc CassotLe commandant Marcellin
- Vitali DoroninLe général Komarov
- Nicolas BatailleLe lieutenant Castor
- Jacques BernardPérier