About this release
Après l’armistice de 1940, des aviateurs français, refusant la captivité, décident de gagner la Russie pour continuer la lutte contre l’Allemagne hitlérienne aux côtés des alliés soviétiques. De cette évasion aux premiers combats dans le ciel russe, ces pilotes considérés au départ comme des déserteurs, seront, deux ans plus tard, accueillis comme des héros.
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Disc 1
BD
Normandy - Neman (1960)
120 min
WarDrama
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...
Credits
Director
Jean Dréville
Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
Writer
Elsa Triolet
Charles Spaak
Konstantin Simonov
Cast
Pierre Trabaudas Le lieutenant Chardon
Giani Espositoas Lemaître
Gérard Buhras Le capitaine de Liron
Vladimir Gusevas Le lieutenant Zykov
Nikolai Rybnikovas Le capitaine Tarasenko
Gennadiy Yukhtinas Tekhnik
Yuri Medvedevas Le sergent Ivanov
Georges Rivièreas Le lieutenant Benoît
Marc Cassotas Le commandant Marcellin
Vitali Doroninas Le général Komarov
Cinematographer
Jacques Natteau
Composer
José Padilla
Rodion Shchedrin
Editor
Borys Lewin
Images
Release Details
- Packaging
- Blu-ray Case
Catalogue Info
- Added by
- Matthew Simpson
- Date added
- July 27, 2026