Moonface: A Woman in the War
2019•1h 7m•7.0•Released
DocumentaryHistory
A walk through the life and career of the legendary French photojournalist Christine Spengler, known as Moonface, one of the few female war reporters in the seventies, also a writer and surrealist painter, who worked in Chad, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and other places where unfortunately war and death prevailed for years.
Director
Xavi Herrero
Writer
Christine Spengler, Xavi Herrero
Languages
Arabic, English, French
Studio
Ibizacinefest
Cast
Christine Spengler
Self - Photojournalist
Christian Lacroix
Self - Fashion Designer
Phillippe Warner
Self - Christine's Companion
Huguette Spengler
Self - Christine's Mother (archive footage)
Yasser Arafat
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Production
Company
Ibizacinefest
Producer
Lucía Ortín Boetti
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