Sep 02, 2017
52 min
Full-HD

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (2017)

The film tells the story of the intimate and unprecedented encounter between the photojournalists of the Magnum Agency and the world of cinema. The confrontation of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality. For 70 years their paths crossed: a family of photographers, amongst them the biggest names in photography, and a family of actors and filmmakers who helped write the history of cinema, from John Huston to Marilyn Monroe to Orson Welles, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn.

Category

Documentary

Country

France

Companies

Magnum Photos ARTE France Cinéma Films à Cinq

Isabella Rossellini

Interviewee

Sophie Bassaler

Narrator

Eve Arnold

Interviewee

Bruce Davidson

Interviewee

Elliott Erwitt

Interviewee

Jean Gaumy

Interviewee

David Hurn

Interviewee

Josef Koudelka

Interviewee

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