The Great Arch
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11/5/2025Runtime
104 minsOverview
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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A measured, reflective portrait of an outsider architect's improbable rise from obscurity to designing one of the world's most ambitious monuments. The film dwells on the quiet dignity of a life's work finally being seen.
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Claes Bang
Johan Otto von Spreckelsen
Sidse Babett Knudsen
Liv von Spreckelsen
Swann Arlaud
Paul Andreu
Michel Fau
François Mitterrand
Xavier Dolan
Jean-Louis Subilon
Jean des Forêts
Alain Juppé
Alessandro Bressanello
Marble man
Micha Lescot
Leloup
Viilbjørk Malling Agger
Architect student
Pierre-François Grunewald
Conseiller de François Mitterrand
Ilaria Cabras
Marble man's daughter
Cédric Appietto
Tavelli
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