French actor Gerard Depardieu is planning to make a movie about the Normandie-Nieman fighter squadron, a French unit which fought over the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
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“The project Normandie-Nieman will be based on the testimonies of people participating in those events, including General de Gaulle, who described it in his memoirs,” he told Belarussian state TV.
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