1000 oak trees, incredible discoveries and the question: Does Paris need a cathedral-building hut like Vienna? As three years after the fire reconstruction is taking place.
Notre Dame is on fire again! Thank God only at the movies. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud, 78, who launched a worldwide cinematic hit in 1986 with “The Name of the Rose”, presented his new epic film in France. Firefighters are the heroes, but politicians like President Macron and Paris Mayor Hidalgo also star in short sequences. The production also has thousands of amateur videos. Still, critics noted that it was more fiction than documentary.
Notre-Dame burned for hours on April 15, 2019, which film director Annaud “rebuilds” here. The first alarm at 18:20. No fire can be detected yet. Fifteen minutes later, passersby report smoke rising. The fire station, just 850 meters from the cathedral, takes 25 minutes of transit on the large piers to reach the church on the island of the Seine. At 7:50 pm, a scream ripples through the surrounding crowd: the rooster from the crossing tower has fallen on the roof, the tower is falling.