Normandy - Neman

Normandy - Neman

120 mins | Drama, War | Feb. 24, 1960

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...

Normandy - Neman

120 mins | Drama, War | Feb. 24, 1960

Normandy - Neman
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...
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Mosfilm, Franco London Films, Les Films Alkam
Original title Normandie - Niémen
Directors Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh, Jean Dréville
Writers Elsa Triolet, Konstantin Simonov, Charles Spaak

Cast

Pierre Trabaud

as Le lieutenant Chardon

Giani Esposito

as Lemaître

Gérard Buhr

as Le capitaine de Liron

Vladimir Gusev

as Le lieutenant Zykov

Nikolai Rybnikov

as Le capitaine Tarasenko

Gennadiy Yukhtin

as Tekhnik

Yuri Medvedev

as Le sergent Ivanov

Georges Rivière

as Le lieutenant Benoît

Marc Cassot

as Le commandant Marcellin

Vitali Doronin

as Le général Komarov

Nicolas Bataille

as Le lieutenant Castor

Jacques Bernard

as Périer

Roland Chalosse

as Le docteur Georges Lebiedensky

Nikolay Lebedev

as Le colonel Sinitsyn

Valentin Gaft

as Mille

Natalya Krachkovskaya

as Devushka v forme

Richard Winckler

as Lieutenant Simonet