The Photographer
La Photographe
2023
France
21 mins
French, German, English
US Premiere
Short Film Competition
| Alexander Graeff | |
| Caïmans Productions | |
| Anna Maria Sturm (Gerda Taro), Clément Bertani (André Friedmann) |
France, 1936. Gerta, a young German photoreporter, lives in exile with her companion, the Hungarian photographer André Friedmann. Due to widespread xenophobia, no newspaper wants to publish them. When the Spanish civil war breaks out, they are determined to cover the events and thus to fight fascism. Faced with the newspapers’ reluctance to send them to Spain, Gerta decides to invent a new identity for them.
About the Director
Alexander Graeff is a German film director living in France. He studied philosophy, history and German literature in Cologne and Paris, while also attending workshops in film making. Since 2013, he has worked as an assistant director, production manager and location manager on short films, feature films and documentaries. ‘The Photographer’, his first produced film, focuses on two important figures in photojournalism and their little-known history.
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