Gerda Taro, brought back into the notoriety she deserved after decades in which she was known mainly to enthusiasts, The Girl with the Leica has become something everyone recognizes, thanks to the commercially and critically successful novel by the Italian-German author Helena Janeczek, winner of the 2018 Strega Prize. The story follows her passion for photojournalism and for Robert Capa, as both of them—along with many friends and colleagues—fled Nazi Germany for a creative exile in Paris.
We come to know her better, at a very young age, in the film by Alina Marazzi, which opens the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival in 2026, when, in July 1937, she is awaiting another departure for Spain and the front of the civil war where she would soon lose her life.
As a creator of documentaries and various works linked, in different ways, to photographs and archival imagery, such as the award-winning Vogliamo anche le rose and Un’ora sola ti vorrei, the director tells us about the challenge of adapting La ragazza con la Leica in this video interview from Venice.
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