How we built the Moscow metro

Documentary · 2014

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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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

Starring

Yolande Decarsin, Xavier Villetard, Arnaud Arbessier, Jochen Hägele, Xavier Villetard, Xavier Villetard, Ghislain Rio, Christopher Morley-Pegge, Franck Lorrain, Anne Brunswic, Céline Mauge, Gilles Padovani

Director

Xavier Villetard