Volunteers (1958 film)

Volunteers () is a Soviet feature film released in 1958. It is based on the poetic novel of same name by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.

Plot

The film takes place during the 1930s to 1950s. Three inseparable male friends – Kaitanov, Ufimtsev, and Akishin – voluntarily became the first builders of the Moscow Metro. The film also tells the story of the friendship between three women: Olya, Masha, and Tanya. The main themes of the movie include the labor front, Spanish volunteer brigades, World War II, and post-war labor in peacetime. The film shows a variety of emotions: joy and sorrow, victory and loss, love and happiness.

Cast

Mikhail Ulyanov as Nikolai Kaitanov

Pyotr Shcherbakov as Vyacheslav Ufimtsev

Leonid Bykov as Aleksei Akishin

Elina Bystritskaya as Olga Teplova, Kaitanov's wife

Lyudmila Krylova as Masha Suvorova, pilot-paratrooper

Mikaela Drozdovskaya as Tanya, Ufimtsev's wife

Maria Vinogradova as Sergeant Valya Kukhnarenko

Lyudmila Ivanova as Komsomol's member

Lyudmila Marchenko as Kaitanov Jr.'s girlfriend

Svetlana Kharitonova as military regulator

Nonna Mordyukova as subway builder

Awards

All-Union Film Festival — Third Prize

References

External links

Великие советские фильмы. 100 фильмов, ставших легендами

Soviet drama films

1958 drama films

1958 films

Gorky Film Studio films

Films based on Russian novels

1950s Russian-language films