The Volunteers

The Volunteers

97 mins | Drama, War | Oct. 20, 1958

Based on the novel of the same name in the verses of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky. Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro. They are united by the romance of the feat, the desire to always be on the most difficult and dangerous site. A romantic and heroic story about the Komsomol members of the 1930s, about the fate of the generation that endured the construction of the first stage of the Moscow Metro, the war, the post-war reconstruction of the country.

The Volunteers

97 mins | Drama, War | Oct. 20, 1958

The Volunteers
Based on the novel of the same name in the verses of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky. Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro. They are united by the romance of the feat, the desire to always be on the most difficult and dangerous site. A romantic and heroic story about the Komsomol members of the 1930s, about the fate of the generation that endured the construction of the first stage of the Moscow Metro, the war, the post-war reconstruction of the country.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Добровольцы
Directors Yuri Yegorov
Writers Yevgeni Dolmatovsky, Yuri Yegorov

Cast

Mikhail Ulyanov

as Kaitanov

Pyotr Shcherbakov

as Ufimtsev

Leonid Bykov

as Akishin

Elina Bystritskaya

as Lyolya

Lyudmila Krylova

as Masha

Sergei Plotnikov

as uncle Seryozha

Viktor Chekmaryov

as Oglotkov

Nikifor Kolofidin

as general

Mariya Vinogradova

as Valya Kukhnarenko

Pavel Vinnik

as mine's komsomol organizer

Ivan Mochalov

as Maks

Yuri Kireyev

as pilot

Nonna Mordyukova

as subway builder woman (uncredited)

Lyudmila Ivanova

as komsomol girl at the meeting (uncredited)

Valentin Bryleev

as subway builder man (uncredited)

Nikolay Pogodin

as subway builder man (uncredited)

Leonid Pirogov

as constructor (uncredited)

Lyudmila Marchenko

as Kaitanov Jr.'s girlfriend (uncredited)

Yelena Maksimova

as owner of the hut (uncredited)

Svetlana Kharitonova

as military traffic controller (uncredited)

Alevtina Rumyantseva

as female worker (uncredited)