Wings of Victory (movie)
Валерий Чкалов- User score: 4.1
- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Mikhail Kalatozov
- Production companies: Lenfilm
- Genre: Drama, War
- Release date: 3/12/1941
- Run time: 89 min.
Movie description
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.
