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Volunteers (1958 film)

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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
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Release date
  • 20 October 1958 (1958-10-20)
Running time
97 min.
CountryUSSR
LanguageRussian

Volunteers (Russian: Добровольцы, romanizedDobrovoltsy) is a Soviet feature film released in 1958. It is based on the poetic novel of same name by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.[1]

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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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