Movie: How we built the Moscow metro

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Arnaud Arbessier
Arnaud Arbessier

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Jochen Hägele
Jochen Hägele

(voice)

Franck Lorrain
Franck Lorrain

(voice)

Céline Mauge
Céline Mauge

(voice)

Gilles Padovani
Gilles Padovani

(voice)

Céline Ronté
Céline Ronté

(voice)

Joseph Stalin
Иосиф Сталин

Himself (archive footage)

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    Comment nous avons construit le métro de Moscou

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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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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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    2014-03-18

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