Valeriy Chkalov

Nov 16 1941 N/A 1h 29m

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.

Plot

Valeriy Chkalov is a name-dream, a name-legend and not only for passionate admirers of the heavenly spheres. He became the first pilot to cross the North Pole and land in America. The brave, daring, mischievous, often reckless conqueror of the sky in the bright performance of Vladimir Belokurov was not at all like the flat, one-sided, stencil characters inhabiting the films of that time.

Written by

Georgi Bajdukov, Boris Chirskov, Dmitriy Tarasov

Directed by

Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast

Vladimir Belokurov, Mikheil Gelovani, Semyon Mezhinsky

Crew

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Production Countries

Soviet Union

Production Companies

Lenfilm

Languages

Awards

N/A

Scores

# of Votes

157

Average Rating

6.3 out of 10

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