Normandy - Neman (1960)

5.2/10 120 min Drama War

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...

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

Natalya Krachkovskaya

Devushka v forme

Richard Winckler

Lieutenant Simonet

Vladimir Seleznyov

Appearing (uncredited)

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