Wings of Victory
Валерий Чкалов
Release: 1941-03-12
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 4.1
Drama
War
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Lenfilm
Cast
Vasili Vanin
as Pavel Pavlovich
Fyodor Bogdanov
as grandpa Yermolai
Sergei Yarov
as Belyakov
Mikhail Kalatozov
Serafima Birman
as American woman (uncredited)
Vladimir Belokurov
as Chkalov
Mikhail Gelovani
as Stalin
Irina Zarubina
as Chkalov's family friend
Boris Andreyev
Arkadiy Raykin
as American journalist
Pyotr Beryozov
as Baidukov
Igor Smyslovskiy
as airplane designer
Semyon Mezhinsky
as Ordzhonikidze
Kseniya Tarasova
as Olga
Boris Zhukovsky
as commander Alyoshin
