Normandy - Neman
movie

Released February 24, 1960
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
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
Crew

Jacques Natteau
as
Director of Photography

Borys Lewin
as
Editor
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Alexandre Hinkis
as
Production Design

Aleksei Parkhomenko
as
Production Design
- no image
Boris Volsky
as
Sound

Jean Dréville
as
Director

Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
as
Director

Elsa Triolet
as
Writer

Charles Spaak
as
Writer

Konstantin Simonov
as
Writer

José Padilla
as
Original Music Composer

Rodion Shchedrin
as
Original Music Composer