
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...
Fun facts
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Filming locations
Filmed in Moscow
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Music
Music by Rodion Shchedrin
Details
- Writers
- Elsa TrioletWriter
- Charles SpaakWriter
- Konstantin SimonovWriter
- Original title
- Normandie - Niémen
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 24, 1960
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France, Soviet Union






































