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How we built the Moscow metro

2014

0 minutes

Documentary

Overview

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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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.

Top Cast

Arnaud Arbessier headshot

Arnaud Arbessier

(voice)

Jochen Hägele headshot

Jochen Hägele

(voice)

Franck Lorrain headshot

Franck Lorrain

(voice)

Céline Mauge headshot

Céline Mauge

(voice)

Gilles Padovani headshot

Gilles Padovani

(voice)

Céline Ronté headshot

Céline Ronté

(voice)

Joseph Stalin headshot

Joseph Stalin

Himself (archive footage)