How we built the Moscow metro
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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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.
Cast
Arnaud Arbessier
(voice)
Jochen Hägele
(voice)
Franck Lorrain
(voice)
Céline Mauge
(voice)
Gilles Padovani
(voice)
Céline Ronté
(voice)
Joseph Stalin
Himself (archive footage)
Storyline
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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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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