The Great Arch

3.56/5 2025 · Directed by Stéphane Demoustier · Starring Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Michel Fau · Drama, History · 105 min

France, 1983. The biggest architectural competition in history is launched by the new socialist president, François Mitterrand. Coveted by all the biggest international architectural firms, the open-call competition is surprisingly won by an unknown: Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an architecture teacher from Copenhagen. Until then, the fifty-year-old Dane had built only four buildings: his home, and three small chapels.

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