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Die Fotografin
When Anthony Penrose discovers long-forgotten photographs of his mother Lee Miller in the attic of his parents' house, he begins to delve into her past. The more he delves into her life, the more he realizes how extraordinary it was: Lee Miller was not only a cover model, Man Ray muse and photographer, but above all a passionate and strong-willed woman who constantly challenged the expectations and rules of her time. During the Second World War, she convinced the editor-in-chief of British Vogue to take fashion shots in the middle of destroyed London and eventually went to the front in France as a war correspondent and photo reporter. Together with her close friend and colleague David E. Scherman, Lee Miller was one of the first to photographically document the crimes of the Nazis in Germany on the day the Buchenwald and Dachau camps were liberated. After the war, no one wanted to publish her testimonies of horror. Traumatized and disappointed, she destroys the negatives and banishes the photographs to her attic - but the memories of what she experienced will never let her go ...