Drama ·War · Soviet Union · 1958 · 1h 37m

The Volunteers

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Director
Yuri Yegorov
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
Crew
Igor Shatrov — Director of Photography Kseniya Blinova — Editor Mark Fradkin — Original Music Composer Yuri Yegorov — Writer Yevgeni Dolmatovsky — Writer Yevgeni Dolmatovsky — Novel
Synopsis

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.

Key Collaborators
Yuri Yegorov Director Igor Shatrov Director of Photography Kseniya Blinova Editor Mark Fradkin Original Music Composer Yuri Yegorov Writer Yevgeni Dolmatovsky Writer Yevgeni Dolmatovsky Novel Pyotr Pashkevich Production Design Elza Rappoport Costume Design
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