Title: | Wings of Victory |
Sensity: | No |
Imdb Rate: | 4.1 |
Imdb Votes: | 9 |
Duration: | 89 mins |
Year: | 1941 |
Language: | Russian, |
Genre: | Drama, War, |
Country: | Soviet Union, |
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.