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Volunteers (1958 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Volunteers' is a Soviet feature film released in 1958. It is based on the poetic novel of same name by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.[https://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/dobrovoltsy/ ]
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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=WP-CCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT111&dq=++1958&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii6em6gKrdAhXNhqYKHYTIDiwQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=%20%201958&f=false . ] 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[https://books.google.com/books?id=WfcvAQAAIAAJ&q=Volunteers++Mikhail+Ulyanov&dq=Volunteers++Mikhail+Ulyanov&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsmNj-_6ndAhWBKiwKHTCiALoQ6AEIMzAB Soviet Film]
* Pyotr Shcherbakov as Vyacheslav Ufimtsev
* Leonid Bykov as Aleksei Akishin
* Elina Bystritskaya as Olga Teplova, Kaitanov's wife[https://books.google.com/books?id=AVs1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT178&dq=++1958&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii6em6gKrdAhXNhqYKHYTIDiwQ6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&q=%20%201958&f=false . ]
* 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[http://www.leonid-bykov.ru/film/7.htm ]
References
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