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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...Read moreLess
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...
The story
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...
Cast & crew
Pierre TrabaudLe lieutenant Chardon
Giani EspositoLemaître
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 BernardPérierExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Jacques Natteau
- Editor
- Borys Lewin
- Director
- Jean Dréville
- Director
- Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
- Writer
- Elsa Triolet
- Writer
- Charles Spaak
- Writer
- Konstantin Simonov
- Original Music Composer
- José Padilla
- Original Music Composer
- Rodion Shchedrin