How we built the Moscow metro

How we built the Moscow metro

2014
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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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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.

Status: Released

Language: FR

Production Information

Production Companies
.Mille et Une. Films. ARTE Histoire TV SVT
Production Countries
France
Spoken Languages
French Russian

Keywords

subway soviet union moscow, russia 1930s purge

Quick Facts

Original Title Comment nous avons construit le métro de Moscou
Release Date March 18, 2014
Status Released
Language FR
Website Visit Site

Cast

Arnaud Arbessier
Arnaud Arbessier

(voice)

Jochen Hägele
Jochen Hägele

(voice)

Franck Lorrain
Franck Lorrain

(voice)

Céline Mauge
Céline Mauge

(voice)

Gilles Padovani
Gilles Padovani

(voice)

Céline Ronté
Céline Ronté

(voice)

Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Himself (archive footage)

Key Crew

Xavier Villetard
Director
Anne Brunswic
Writer
Xavier Villetard
Writer
Jean-Philippe Lecomte
Producer
Gilles Padovani
Producer