International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Great Expectations

Jesper Wachtmeister, The Netherlands / Sweden, 2007

Synopsis

<> is the first documentary to present the grand architectural visions of our time. Visions where imagination has been allowed to run free. Sometimes unrealized and unbound by earthly conditions, sometimes realized and revolutionary to its in-habitants. But the film deals with far more than mere illusions of grandeur. It is the story of great thinkers who in different time-periods of the 20th century have suggested revo-lutionary changes to our ways of living and how it is to live in their dreams. The answers vary, but the intentions of the architects were good…mostly.

Using archive footage and animations, the film brings architecture of the past and plans never realized to life. Visiting inhabitants of the visions that became realized, their sto-ries comment and contrast the ambitions of the architects.

Credits

Director
Jesper Wachtmeister
Production
Alva Lindquist for Eight Millimetres AB
Jesper Wachtmeister for Solaris Filmproduction
Alva Lindquist for Solaris Filmproduction
Involved TV Channel
SVT
AVRO
SBS Australia
DR Dokumentar
NRK
YLE
Co-producent
Vera Bonnier for SVT
Wolter Braamhorst for AVRO

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Genre: Art / Music / Culture
Country of Production: Netherlands, The
Country of Production: Sweden
Year production: 2007

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