How we built the Moscow metro

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How we built the Moscow metro (2014)

Directed by Xavier Villetard

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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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

Crew

Director
Xavier Villetard
Writer
Anne Brunswic, Xavier Villetard
Editor
Marie Pomme Carteret
Producer
Jean-Philippe Lecomte, Gilles Padovani

Details

Original title
Comment nous avons construit le métro de Moscou
Release date
2014-03-18
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French, Russian
Countries
France
Production
.Mille et Une. Films., ARTE, Histoire TV, SVT