Movie "Normandy-Neman"

Year - 1959
Language is Russian
Director: Jean Drevil

In roles: Nikolay Rybnikov, Pierre Trabo, Zhani Esposito, Gerard Darriio, André Oumansqui, Jacques Richard, Georges Rivyer, Jean-Claude Michel, Nicolas Bataille, Mark Kasso, Rolan Shalos, Jean Oube, Richard Vincler, Vladimir Bamdasov, Vladimir Gusev, Vitaly Doronin, Nikolay Lebedev, Yury Medvedev, Valentin Gaft, Nina Grebeshkova, Valentin Kulik, Oleg Mokshantsev, Vladimir Solovyyov, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Jan Yanakiyev, Elena Volskaya

Description: About fighting activity of the pilots of the French squadron "Normandy-Neman" battling in days of the Great Patriotic War in the ranks of the Soviet armed forces.

In the most difficult days of World War II the remains of the French army are forced to stay idle in Algeria on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. But the French pilots cannot reconcile to shameful petenovsky "world". Here, on the beach, plans of escape in the armies of allies combating fascists ripen. Lemetr, Benois and Dupont under the guise of repair of the plane start the motor, and the plane soars up into the sky. Attempt of other group comes to an end in failure. Gendarmes are enough Le Gena. His friends should start everything anew. In the fall of 1942 pilots of a squadron "Normandy" gather in Tehran from there to fly to the Soviet Union. By means of the Russian companions French master the fighter "Yak". The friendship of the French pilots with desperately courageous lieutenant Zykov (Vladimir Gusev) and the cheerful captain Tarasenko is tied (Nikolay Rybnikov). Especially the mechanic Ivanov and the baron De Boissi made friends. On March 23, 1943 Germans with amazement intercepted radio conversation of the "Russian" pilots in the purest French. So the fighting way of a squadron "Normandy" in the Russian sky begins. In the summer of 1943 "Normandy" appears in the scorching heat of Kursk fight. Shardon by mistake forces down the "Messerschmitt" piloted by the captain Tarasenko. To make amends, he at the head of group of planes attacks the German airfield. During flight of a squadron on new base the fuel pipe of the plane of De Boissi is punched. The pilot blinded by fire refuses to get out of the car - onboard without parachute the mechanic Ivanov. Boissi tries to put blindly the plane, but it does not manage it... In one of fights also the commander of a squadron Marselen perishes. But to the place of the dead there are new pilots who arrived from France. In day of liberation of Paris appropriate to the squadron battling in the sky of Russia, Poland and Germany the name "Normandy-Neman".

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