Writers building trains while Stalin built graves—this metro runs on blood and beautiful lies.
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 Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the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.
Direction
Villetard weaves writers' words into ghostly excavation.
Production
Unpublished brigade manuscripts as living history.
Director
Xavier Villetard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Writer Brigades' were real: authors like Isaac Babel and Andrei Platonov literally reported from construction sites, their texts later weaponized as evidence in show trials.
Metro-2, the rumored secret parallel system built for Stalin, remains officially denied—this film's archives accidentally include maps that fuel conspiracy theories.
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