Synopsis

Wings of Victory (1941)

The film is based on the biography of Valeri Chkalov (1904 – 1938), a Russian pilot, who set several long distance flight records. Chkalov and his co-pilots Baidukov and Belyakov together had accomplished several non-stop long-distance flights. In June of 1937 Chkalov set the world record, covering 12000 kilometers in 63 hours of non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, flying over the North Pole.
Mikhail Kalatozov, Semyon Derevyansky
Vladimir Belokurov, Mikhail Gelovani, Semyon Mezhinsky, Kseniya Tarasova, Vasili Vanin, Pyotr Berezov, Boris Zhukovsky, Fyodor Bogdanov, Sergei Yarov, Irina Zarubina, Igor Smyslovski, Mikhail Kalatozov, Boris Andreyev, Arkadiy Raykin, Serafima Birman
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