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
Pierre Trabaud
Le lieutenant Chardon
Giani Esposito
Lemaître
Gérard Buhr
Le capitaine de Liron
Vladimir Gusev
Le lieutenant Zykov
Nikolai Rybnikov
Le capitaine Tarasenko
Gennadiy Yukhtin
Tekhnik
Yuri Medvedev
Le sergent Ivanov
Georges Rivière
Le lieutenant Benoît
Marc Cassot
Le commandant Marcellin
Vitali Doronin
Le général Komarov
Nicolas Bataille
Le lieutenant Castor
Jacques Bernard
Périer
Roland Chalosse
Le docteur Georges Lebiedensky
Nikolai Lebedev
Le colonel Sinitsyn
Valentin Gaft
Mille
Nina Grebeshkova
Unknown
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Devushka v forme
Richard Winckler
Lieutenant Simonet
Vladimir Seleznyov
Appearing (uncredited)
Crew
Jean Dréville
Director
Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
Director
Elsa Triolet
Writer
Charles Spaak
Writer
Konstantin Simonov
Writer
Borys Lewin
Editor
Jacques Natteau
Director of Photography
Alexandre Hinkis
Production Design
Aleksei Parkhomenko
Production Design
Boris Volsky
Sound
José Padilla
Original Music Composer
Rodion Shchedrin
Original Music Composer
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