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How we built the Moscow metro (2014)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 0M

Director : Xavier Villetard

Synopsis

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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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

Actors

Arnaud Arbessier
Arnaud Arbessier
(voice)
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
Joseph Stalin
Himself (archive footage)

Crews

Xavier Villetard
Xavier Villetard
Director
Yolande Decarsin
Yolande Decarsin
Sound
Anne Brunswic
Anne Brunswic
Writer
Xavier Villetard
Xavier Villetard
Writer
Marie Pomme Carteret
Marie Pomme Carteret
Editor
Christopher Morley-Pegge
Christopher Morley-Pegge
Cinematography
Guillaume Kozakiewiez
Guillaume Kozakiewiez
Additional Camera
Denis Sneguirev
Denis Sneguirev
Assistant Director
Alisa Spirina
Alisa Spirina
Documentation & Support
Agathe Oléron
Agathe Oléron
Graphic Designer
Chloé Bouslimani
Chloé Bouslimani
Property Master
Ghislain Rio
Ghislain Rio
Color Grading
Julien Moreux
Julien Moreux
Color Grading
Yann Legay
Yann Legay
Mixing Engineer
Kévin Feildel
Kévin Feildel
Mixing Engineer
Jean-Philippe Lecomte
Jean-Philippe Lecomte
Production Manager
Élodie Sonnefraud
Élodie Sonnefraud
Production Manager
Lucie Jullien
Lucie Jullien
Assistant Production Manager
Christine Gautier
Christine Gautier
Assistant Production Manager
Gilles Padovani
Gilles Padovani
Producer
Jean-Philippe Lecomte
Jean-Philippe Lecomte
Producer

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