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...
Released: Feb 24, 1960
Runtime: 120 minutes
Stars: Pierre Trabaud, Giani Esposito, Gérard Buhr, Vladimir Gusev, Nikolai Rybnikov, Gennadiy Yukhtin
Crew: Rodion Shchedrin (Music), Borys Lewin (Editor), Aleksei Parkhomenko (Production Design), Alexandre Hinkis (Production Design), Jacques Natteau (Director of Photography), José Padilla (Music)