Volunteers
DVD cover
Directed byYuri Egorov
Written byYuri Egorov
Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky
Produced byVladimir Maron
StarringMikhail Ulyanov
Pyotr Shcherbakov
Leonid Bykov
CinematographyIgor Shatrov
Edited byKsenia Blinova
Music byMark Fradkin
Production
company
Release date
  • 20 October 1958 (1958-10-20)
Running time
97 min.
CountryUSSR
LanguageRussian

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]

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.

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