The Real Thing
Real life in fake cities
A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.
- Year: 2018
- Country: France
- Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
- Studio: Artline Films, ARTE
- Keyword: shanghai, china, architecture, eiffel tower, paris, architecture history, taj mahal, india, monuments, hangzhou, china, suzhou, china, st. peter's basilica, rome, london bridge
- Director: Benoît Felici
- Cast: Benoît Felici, Bianca Bosker, Stanislas Skuza, Jean-Noël Loucou, Anthony Mackay, Jean-François Staszak