HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Stockholm Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
000 min

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2020 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Gero von Boehm

Written By:
Gero von Boehm

Actors:
Helmut Newton ..... Self
Sigourney Weaver ..... Self
Grace Jones ..... Self
Sylvia Gobbel ..... Self
Isabella Rossellini ..... Self
Anna Wintour ..... Self
Nadja Auermann ..... Self
Phyllis Posnick ..... Self
Susan Sontag ..... Self
Charlotte Rampling ..... Self
Marianne Faithfull ..... Self
Claudia Schiffer ..... Self
Hanna Schygulla ..... Self
June Newton ..... Self
Carla Sozzani ..... Self
Arja Töyrylä ..... Self

Synopsis:

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The trailblazing late photographer Helmut Newton had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.

Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Helmut Newton came of age ensconced in the seductive decadence of an 'anything goes' Berlin under the Weimar Republic. His teenaged apprenticeship under commercial photography pioneer Yva - who perished in the Holocaust - coincided with his family's persecution under the rise of the Third Reich and the emergence of the striking aesthetics of infamous Nazi propagandist, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. He escaped with members of his family in 1938 and met his life partner June while in Australia working as a commercial photographer. The couple eventually settled in Paris where Helmut's gradual evolution beyond the, then, conservative confines of fashion photography coincided with the radical political upheaval of 60s France. Interpreting the most traumatic political and cultural shift in German history, Helmut established his artistic legacy by effectively channeling his past into an erotically charged, highly-subversive portfolio dominated by bold 'Aryan'-esque women in stilettos navigating the shadowy past of Helmut's motherland. Replete with Helmut's arresting imagery, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL features creative accomplices Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling, Isabella Rossellini, Marianne Faithfull, Anna Wintour and widow June Newton as they reflect on Helmut's life and legacy.

Helmut Newton the trailblazing late photographer who had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 18 August, 2025.