The Volunteers
1958
97 minutes
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.
Top 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
Ivan Mochalov
Maks
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)
Yelena Maksimova
owner of the hut (uncredited)
Svetlana Kharitonova
military traffic controller (uncredited)
Alevtina Rumyantseva
female worker (uncredited)