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THE GREAT ARCH
| 2026 – 104′ – Drama, Period & History, Films & Literature.
Written by: Stéphane Demoustier.
Based on the Book by: Laurence Cossé
Directed by: Stéphane Demoustier.
Starring: Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Michel Fau, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Alessandro Bressanello, Pierre-Francois Grunewald.
Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival 2025 (Un Certain Regard selection).
In French with English subtitles
A Cohen Media Group release. |
1982. French President François Mitterrand decides to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his mandate: the Great Arch of La Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe.
Against all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the competition.Overnight, this 53-year-old man, unknown in France, arrives in Paris where he is propelled at the helm of this pharaonic project.While the architect intends to build the Great Arch exactly as he envisioned, his ideas quickly clash with realistic constraints and the vicissitudes of politics.