The Great Arch

Directed by Stéphane Demoustier

With Claes Bang, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Michel Fau

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.