How we built the Moscow metro
2014•1.0•Released
Documentary
In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write in real time "the history of the Moscow Metro". Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the purges of 1937-38.
Director
Xavier Villetard
Writer
Anne Brunswic, Xavier Villetard
Languages
French, Russian
Studio
.Mille et Une. Films.
Cast
Arnaud Arbessier
(voice)
Jochen Hägele
(voice)
Franck Lorrain
(voice)
Céline Mauge
(voice)
Gilles Padovani
(voice)
Céline Ronté
(voice)
Joseph Stalin
Himself (archive footage)
Production
Company
.Mille et Une. Films.
Company
ARTE
Company
Histoire TV
Company
SVT
Producer
Jean-Philippe Lecomte
Producer
Gilles Padovani
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