Wings of Victory
|Валерий Чкалов
Status: Released
Runtime: 89
Release Date: 12/03/1941
Origin Language: ru
Origin Country: SU
Languages: Russian
Production: Lenfilm
Countries: Soviet Union
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
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.
