Movielogr
Wings of Victory (1941)
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
Overview
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.
Length 89 minutes
Actors
Vladimir Belokurov | Mikheil 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