Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
- Released on
- Runtime
- 52 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Isabella Rossellini
- Sophie Bassaler
- Eve Arnold
- Bruce Davidson
- Elliott Erwitt
- Jean Gaumy
- David Hurn
- Josef Koudelka
- Constantine Manos
- Peter Marlow
- Paolo Pellegrin
- Gueorgui Pinkhassov
- Dennis Stock
- Peter Van Agtmael
- Patrick Zachmann
- Abbas Attar
Director
- Sophie Bassaler
Producers
- Martin de la Fouchardière
- Sally Blake