How we built the Moscow metro

How we built the Moscow metro (2014)

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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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

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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)

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