THE GIRL WITH THE LEICA

Director: Alina Marazzi
Writers: Alina Marazzi, Valia Santella
Cast: Emilia Schüle, Aaron Altaras, Luna Wedler, Thomas Schubert uvm.
Production: Vivo Film, Komplizen Film, ZDF, ARTE
Distribution Germany: Port au Prince Pictures
World Sales: Fandango
Int. Press: WOLF

+++ THE GIRL WITH THE LEICA celebrates it’s world premiere in Venice +++

Paris, July 14, 1937. Gerda Taro spends her final day before returning to the Spanish front with Robert Capa and the close friends with whom she escaped Nazi Germany. As past and present intertwine, the defining moments of her life resurface: her political activism in Leipzig alongside her first love, her years of exile in Paris, her whirlwind romance with Capa, her discovery of photography, and her growing determination to use her Leica as a tool for resistance and freedom. A portrait of the first female photojournalist to die on the battlefield, Gerda Taro embodied an era when everything still seemed possible.