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How we built the Moscow metro

How we built the Moscow metro

2014•1.0/10
Documentary

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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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

.Mille et Une. Films., ARTE, Histoire TV, SVT

Language

FR

Status

Released

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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

(voice)

Céline Ronté

Céline Ronté

(voice)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Himself (archive footage)

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