Venice opens Horizons section with Gerda Taro biopic 'The Girl With the Leica'

The short version

• Director Alina Marazzi's film 'The Girl With the Leica' opened the Horizons section at the Venice film festival.[Variety]
• The biographical drama stars Emilia Schüle as Gerda Taro, who died at age 26 as the first female photojournalist killed on the battlefield.[Variety]
• The film explores Taro's collaborative partnership with Endrè Friedmann, with whom she created the Robert Capa pseudonym.[Variety]

Key facts

• Alina Marazzi's film 'The Girl With the Leica' opened the Horizons section of the Venice film festival.[Variety]
• Gerda Taro died at age 26, becoming the first female photojournalist killed on the battlefield.[Variety]
• Taro and Endrè Friedmann jointly created the American photographer persona Robert Capa, which later obscured Taro's personal contributions.[Variety]
• Three boxes containing lost negatives by Taro, Capa, and David Seymour from the Spanish Civil War were rediscovered in 2007 after vanishing in 1940.[Variety]

Sources

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