Film & Kunst: "Drei Frauen – Ein Krieg"

In the "Film & Art" series, Cinema Quadrat and Kunsthalle Mannheim are showing a documentary about three female photo reporters during the Second World War:

THREE WOMEN - ONE WAR

DEU/ITA 2020. dir: Luzia Schmid. Documentary. 106 min. Dt-englOmdtU. FSK: n. A.

Three female photographers were the first women to have the courage to report directly from the front during the Second World War and capture the Allied war against the National Socialists and their allies on camera: Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) and Lee Miller (1907-1977). All three women had already worked successfully as photo reporters and journalists for various magazines before their assignments in Europe. In her documentary, Luzia Schmid has deliberately created a memorial to them and shows the horror of war exclusively from the perspective of her three protagonists. The director uses surviving photos, reports, letters and diary entries by the three famous photographers and embeds these impressive historical testimonies with great care in official Allied film footage. Martha Gellhorn, Margaret Bourke-White and Lee Miller also have their say in the film and talk about their lasting impressions of a completely destroyed Europe.

Introduction: Prof. Dr. Claude W. Sui, President of the German Photographic Academy