| Volunteers | |
| Director: | Yuri Egorov |
| Producer: | Vladimir Maron |
| Starring: | Mikhail Ulyanov Pyotr Shcherbakov Leonid Bykov |
| Cinematography: | Igor Shatrov |
| Music: | Mark Fradkin |
| Editing: | Ksenia Blinova |
| Studio: | Gorky Film Studio |
| Country: | USSR |
| Language: | Russian |
| Runtime: | 97 min. |
Volunteers (Russian: Добровольцы|Dobrovoltsy) is a Soviet feature film released in 1958. It is based on the poetic novel of same name by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.[1]
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.