The Volunteers
1958Based 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.
Acted in
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)
Yelena Maksimova
as owner of the hut (uncredited)
Svetlana Kharitonova
as military traffic controller (uncredited)
Alevtina Rumyantseva
as female worker (uncredited)