Eiffel, la guerre des tours

The iconic Eiffel Tower has a story rooted in an ambitious challenge to construct a tower over a thousand feet tall, a project that extended well beyond a simple design competition and became a significant milestone in engineering history. It marked a pivotal shift as iron emerged as a rival to stone, engineering to architecture, and modern design to tradition. The competition was marked by intense press campaigns, lobbying efforts, public debates, criticism of rival proposals, and the promotion of prominent names, as participants engaged in a determined and uncompromising struggle. Utilizing 3D recreations, official documents such as reports, letters, and drawings, as well as personal archives obtained from descendants, the film offers a vivid and innovative portrayal of this vertical race, commemorating the centenary of Eiffel's death.