Sky Battalion (1947)
March 5, 1947Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Pierre Blanchar
Ferane
René Lefèvre
Baptiste
Janine Crispin
Berthe Servais
Daniel Mendaille
Baron de Brandoz (as D. Mendaille)
Jean Wall
Ben Sassein
Marcel Mouloudji
Le Canaque (as Mouloudji)
Alexander Esway
Director
Christian Bertola
Lt. de Carrizy
Joseph Kessel
Writer
Marcel Rivet
Writer
Charles Moulin
Le Gorille
Luc Andrieux
(as Andrieu)
Raymond Borderie
Producer
Henri Nassiet
Bouvier
Nicolas Vogel
Veran
Adrien Remaugé
Producer
Daphne Courtney
June
William Robert Sivel
Sound Engineer
Léonide Azar
Editor
Maurice Thiriet
Original Music Composer
Nicolas Hayer
Director of Photography
Manuel Rosenthal
Original Music Composer
Léopold Schlosberg
Production Manager
René Alié
Paul Barge
John Howard
Fernand Bellan
Pamela Stirling
Bernard Véron
Howard Vernon
Christine Vall
Vanna Urbino
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 5, 1947
Original NameBataillon du ciel
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 3m
Budget$200
Genres
Wiki.
Le Bataillon du ciel (Sky Battalion) is a 1947 French film in two parts by Alexander Esway about the Second World War. The film, written by Joseph Kessel, became the biggest box office success in France that year with more than 8 million tickets sold.The first part, Ce ne sont pas des anges (They are no Angels) was released on 8 March 1947, the second part Terre de France (The land of France) one month later. The total length is 3 hours and 20 minutes. It tells the story of French parachute troops who train in Free France and then land in Brittany the day before the Normandy landings to fight against the Germans.Despite being one of the few films to deal with the resistance against the German occupation from within Free France (the most important other one being Taxi for Tobruk), it was cited a lot less in studies of French films dealing with the Second World War than films about either the resistance within occupied France, or the efforts by the Allies.