69 years ago:
True Friends (SU)
Original title: Верные друзья
Story about 3 childhood friends who found each other later in life and decided to rafting on one of the Moscovian rivers.
1954-04-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/142770
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82 years ago:
Wings of Victory (SU)
Original title: Валерий Чкалов
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 ...
1941-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/322840
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