The Volunteers

The Volunteers (1958)

DramaWar

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.

Director: Yuri Yegorov

Casts

	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
	Ivan Mochalov as Maks
	Yuriy Kireev as лётчик
	Nonna Mordyukova as subway builder woman (uncredited)
	Lyudmila Ivanova as komsomol girl at the meeting (uncredited)
	Valentin Bryleev as subway builder man (uncredited)
	Nikolay Pogodin as subway builder man (uncredited)
	Leonid Pirogov as constructor (uncredited)
	Lyudmila Marchenko as Kaitanov Jr.'s girlfriend (uncredited)
	Elena Maksimova as owner of the hut (uncredited)
	Svetlana Kharitonova as military traffic controller (uncredited)
	Alevtina Rumyantseva as female worker (uncredited)

Crew