How we built the Moscow metro

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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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

Details

Cast

Arnaud Arbessier

(voice)

Jochen Hägele

(voice)

Franck Lorrain

(voice)

Céline Mauge

(voice)

Gilles Padovani

(voice)

Céline Ronté

(voice)

Joseph Stalin

Himself (archive footage)