HELMUT NEWTON – THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

He was one of the Great Masters of photography. Elegant, playful, inventive, provocative, inspirational – and himself inspired by sharp observation and the deep roots of his childhood in Berlin of the 1920s. Berlin was him, and he was Berlin. But he was a cosmopolitan too. In 2020 Helmut Newton would have become 100 years old. THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL tells the extraordinary, and at times dramatic life of the Jewish photographer and takes a closer and very special look at his oeuvre which was not without controversy. The film lets – besides Helmut Newton, the great women’s portraitist himself – exclusively women have their say: Marianne Faithful, Claudia Schiffer, Charlotte Rampling, Grace Jones, Nadja Auermann, Isabella Rossellini, Anna Wintour, his wife June Newton, and with a detached point of view Hanna Schygulla.


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Poster HELMUT NEWTON – THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
photos © Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton Estate/Courtesy Helmut Newton Foundation
  • Genre
    Art
  • CATEGORY
    Documentary
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2020
  • DIRECTOR
    Gero von Boehm
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Pierre Nativel, Sven Jakob-Engelmann, Marcus Winterbauer, Alexander Hein, Pauline Penichout, Uli Fischer
  • PRODUCER
    Felix von Boehm
  • CO-PRODUCER
    Torsten Bönnhoff
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Lupa Film, in co-production with Monarda Arts
  • RUNTIME
    92 min
  • LANGUAGE
    English, German, French
  • FESTIVALS
    Tribeca 2020
  • SALES
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