CinemaOSMovie · 2014

How we built the Moscow metro

10%(1)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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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.

Directed byXavier Villetard

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Status
Released
Language
FR
Released
March 18, 2014
Studios
.Mille et Une. Films.ARTEHistoire TV

Featuring

Cast & crew

7 credited
Starring
Arnaud Arbessier

Arnaud Arbessier

(voice)

Jochen Hägele

Jochen Hägele

(voice)

Franck Lorrain

Franck Lorrain

(voice)

Céline Mauge

Céline Mauge

(voice)

Gilles Padovani

(voice)

Céline Ronté

Céline Ronté

(voice)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Himself (archive footage)

Creative team
Directed by
Xavier Villetard
Written by
Anne Brunswic
Xavier Villetard
Produced by
Gilles Padovani
Jean-Philippe Lecomte

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