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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.[1]

Volunteers
DVD cover
Directed by	Yuri Egorov
Written by	Yuri Egorov Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
Produced by	Vladimir Maron
Starring	Mikhail Ulyanov Pyotr Shcherbakov Leonid Bykov
Cinematography	Igor Shatrov
Edited by	Ksenia Blinova
Music by	Mark Fradkin
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	20 October 1958 (1958-10-20)
Running time	97 min.
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

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.[2] 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[3]
• Pyotr Shcherbakov as Vyacheslav Ufimtsev
• Leonid Bykov as Aleksei Akishin
• Elina Bystritskaya as Olga Teplova, Kaitanov's wife[4]
• 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[5]

References

External links

• Volunteers at IMDb
• Великие советские фильмы. 100 фильмов, ставших легендами

На других языках

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- [en] Volunteers (1958 film)

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[ru] Добровольцы (фильм)

«Доброво́льцы» — советский художественный полнометражный цветной фильм, снятый режиссёром Юрием Егоровым на киностудии имени М. Горького в 1958 году по одноимённому роману в стихах поэта Евгения Долматовского.

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