Normandie - Niémen (1960)
Directed by Jean Dréville, Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
War / Drama
Normandie - Niémen (1960)
Film Synopsis
A number of French Air Force pilots stationed in North Africa refuse to accept Marshal Pétain's armistice. In 1942, sixteen of them manage to reach the Soviet Union where they form an elite squadron named 'Normandie'. Their first victories, at Stalingrad and Orel, soon win them the admiration of the Soviets, although the casualty rate is alarmingly high. In 1944, the Normandie is to participate in the liberation of France, but in doing so they must work alongside reinforcements led by Flavier, an officer who voted for the Vichy government. Now is not the time for recriminations, however...© James Travers
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Film Credits
- Director: Jean Dréville, Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
- Script: Konstantin Simonov, Charles Spaak, Elsa Triolet
- Cinematographer: Jacques Natteau
- Music: José Padilla, Rodion Shchedrin
- Cast: Pierre Trabaud (Le lieutenant Chardon), Roland Ménard (Le lieutenant de Villemont), Giani Esposito (Lemaître), Gérard Darrieu (Le Guen), Georges Rivière (Le lieutenant Benoît), Jean-Claude Michel (Le commandant Flavier), André Oumansky (Dupont), Bamdas (L'ingénieur Saryan), Jacques Bernard (Périer), Gérard Buhr (Le capitaine de Liron), Marc Cassot (Le commandant Marcellin), Roland Chalosse (Le docteur Georges Lebiedensky), Vitali Doronin (Le général Komarov), Vladimir Gusev (Le lieutenant Zykov), Jean Houbé (Le lieutenant de Bossy), Nikolai Lebedev (Le colonel Sinitsyn), Yuri Medvedev (Le sergent Ivanov), Jacques Richard (Colin), Nikolai Rybnikov (captain Tarasenko), Clément Thierry (Vignelette)
- Country: France / Soviet Union
- Language: French / Russian
- Support: Black and White
- Runtime: 120 min
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