Volunteers (1958 film)
# Volunteers (1958 film)

Volunteers (Russian: Добровольцы, romanized: Dobrovoltsy) 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
