The Volunteers (1958)

October. 20,1958

7.2

| Drama War

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.

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Cast

Mikhail Ulyanov as Kaitanov

[1999] The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment [1995] Everything Will Be All Right [1994] The Master and Margarita [1991] House Under the Starry Skies [1990] Stalingrad [1985] Counterstrike

Pyotr Shcherbakov as Ufimtsev

[1992] A Small Giant of Big Sex [1987] About the Cat... [1985] Winter Evening in Gagry [1983] We're from Jazz [1983] Tears Were Falling [1978] The Pretty Man

Leonid Bykov as Akishin

[1976] One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... [1973] Only Old Men Are Going to Battle [1968] The Scouts [1962] Four Winds of Heaven [1960] Alyosha's Love [1959] May Stars

Reviews

Spoonixel

1958/10/20

Amateur movie with Big budget

Huievest

1958/10/21

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Invaderbank

1958/10/22

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Kirandeep Yoder

1958/10/23

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.