+ Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Oscar-winning actress’s visit is “one of the highlights of ZFF’s 20-year history”, said Festival Artistic Director Christian Jungen in a speech at the Palais des Congrès on Monday evening. In the afternoon, Winslet dove into 15-degree Celsius water in Lake Zurich. The 49-year-old film star turned serious when she held up the Golden Eye Award.
She said that in her luggage was the important film of her career. Lee is a biopic about the American war photographer Lee Miller (1907-1977), who was best known as a former fashion model but who also documented the liberation of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. + Zurich Film Festival honours Pamela Anderson Producer and lead actress Kate Winslet invested around ten years in the project.
Miller’s son, Anthony Penrose, was also present. His story is also unique, as he only learned what his mother did during the Second World War after her death. Since her death, he has wanted to film her story (he himself published a book about her called The Lives of Lee Miller ).
Before meeting Kate Winslet, he had turned down countless film offers over the years. Translated from French by DeepL/jdp.