Released
Wings of Victory
March 12 1941 (over 83 years ago)Rating
41
Based on
9 reviews
- Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
- Genres: Drama, War
- Runtime: 1 h 29 m
- Country: Soviet Union
- Company: Lenfilm
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.
