Synopsis

This is the portrait of a visionary, a politician who pursued three goals in his life: to bring peace, freedom, and social justice to his contemporaries. It is the story of Paul Henri Spaak’s fight to build the Europe in which we have lived in peace for 75 years.

To achieve this, Spaak participated in the creation of all the major international organizations of his time, after the Second World War.

He became the first President of the UN General Assembly, the first President of the General Assembly of the Council of Europe, the first President of the General Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), Secretary General of NATO, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, and the father of the Treaties of Rome, the founding texts of the European Economic Community (EEC) and Euratom.

Discover how this Belgian, with his typically Brussels wit, became one of the major figures of the 20th century!

• Production:

  Les films de la Mémoire

• Director:

  Hugues Lanneau

• Broadcast:

  RTBF, VRT

• Packaging, animations, titles:

  Squarefish