Sur la piste d'Alto

Sur la piste d'Alto (2006)


  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2006-10-21
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Production Company: CC&C
  • Production Country: France
  • Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle.

Summary

This film brings to life, thanks to unknown footage from the great American director William Wyler, an important period in the history of Corsica during World War II. In 1944, the Alto base near Folelli was home to both a group of fighter-bombers from the U.S. Army Air Force (the 57th Fighter Group) and the famous French Lafayette fighter group. Day after day, the young pilots of these two units took off from the Alto runway in their P-47 Thunderbolts to attack, strafe, and bomb the German troops who, in Italy, had halted the Allied advance at Monte Cassino and participated in the Provence landings in August 1944. Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle tracked down the pilots, and sixty years later, these pilots are reunited...

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