The Great Arch

2025 · Drama, History · 104 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.

Claes Bang

Xavier Dolan

Swann Arlaud

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Michel Fau

Jean des Forêts

Micha Lescot

Alessandro Bressanello

Ilaria Cabras

Viilbjørk Malling Agger

Cédric Appietto

Olivier Marguerit