The Volunteers (1958)

5.5/10 97 min Drama War

Overview

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.

Cast

Mikhail Ulyanov

Kaitanov

Pyotr Shcherbakov

Ufimtsev

Leonid Bykov

Akishin

Elina Bystritskaya

Lyolya

Lyudmila Krylova

Masha

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

Tanya

Sergei Plotnikov

uncle Seryozha

Viktor Chekmaryov

Oglotkov

Nikifor Kolofidin

general

Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky

doctor

Mariya Vinogradova

Valya Kukhnarenko

Pavel Vinnik

mine's komsomol organizer

Yuriy Kireev

лётчик

Nonna Mordyukova

subway builder woman (uncredited)

Lyudmila Ivanova

komsomol girl at the meeting (uncredited)

Valentin Bryleev

subway builder man (uncredited)

Nikolay Pogodin

subway builder man (uncredited)

Leonid Pirogov

constructor (uncredited)

Lyudmila Marchenko

Kaitanov Jr.'s girlfriend (uncredited)

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