Wings of Victory
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.
Cast: 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
Crew: Georgi Bajdukov (Writer), Boris Chirskov (Writer), Dmitri Tarasov (Writer), Mikhail Kalatozov (Director), Yakov Antselovich (Producer)