The Volunteers
movie

Released October 20, 1958
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
as
Kaitanov

Pyotr Shcherbakov
as
Ufimtsev

Leonid Bykov
as
Akishin

Elina Bystritskaya
as
Lyolya

Lyudmila Krylova
as
Masha

Mikaela Drozdovskaya
as
Tanya

Sergei Plotnikov
as
uncle Seryozha

Viktor Chekmaryov
as
Oglotkov

Nikifor Kolofidin
as
general

Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
as
doctor

Mariya Vinogradova
as
Valya Kukhnarenko

Pavel Vinnik
as
mine's komsomol organizer
Crew

Yuri Yegorov
as
Director

Yuri Yegorov
as
Writer

Grigoriy Gamburg
as
Conductor

Yevgeni Dolmatovsky
as
Novel

Yevgeni Dolmatovsky
as
Writer

Igor Shatrov
as
Director of Photography
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Pyotr Pashkevich
as
Production Design

Mark Fradkin
as
Original Music Composer

Elza Rappoport
as
Costume Design
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Kseniya Blinova
as
Editor
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Vitali Grishin
as
Camera Operator
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Boris Duksht
as
Set Decoration