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.
Unfortunately the movie The Real Thing is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Production | David Borenstein | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Li Xiaobin | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Olivier Mille | Producer |
| Production | Philipp Griess | Production Manager |
| Production | Benjamin Landsberger | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Bastian Esser | Director of Photography |
| Production | Fabrice Puchault | Producer |
| Production | Avishek Ghosh | Production Supervisor |
| Sound | Julien Baron | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Victoire Buff | Producer |
| Sound | Roberto Fondriest | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Alessandro D’Emilia | Additional Photography |
| Sound | Philippe Gozlan | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Pablo Pico | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Florian Geiser | Color Grading |
| Sound | Philippe Gozlan | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Robin Gaussé | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Sophie Brunet | Editor |
| Directing | Benoît Felici | Director |
| Production | Judith Matheron | Production Assistant |
| Production | Laura Cavaciutti | Administration |
| Production | Claude Roy | Administration |
| Editing | Etienne Pintelon | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Benjamin Vossler | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Francesco Fioretto | Graphic Designer |
| Editing | Maëlle Henry | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Emanuela Macchniz | Additional Editing |
| Editing | Antoine Favre | Additional Editing |
| Writing | Benoît Felici | Writer |
| Sound | Stefano Bernardi | Sound Mixer |
