Volunteers (1958 film)

Volunteers (Добровольцы) 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