Veruschka: A Life for the Camera (Veruschka - Die Inszenierung (m)eines Körpers) 18 years old

Vera von Lehndorff is a Prussian noblewoman and daughter of the Count Lehndorff, a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance, executed during WW II. She was discovered in 1959 by Italian photographer Ugo Mulas. After initial failure, she changed her name to Veruschka, became one of the first top models and was also considered for a long time one of the most beautiful women in the world. Muse to Antonioni in Blow up, and to Dalì, in the 1960s she was on the cover of magazines like Life, Vogue and Queen, and photographed by the most important talents of the time (Avedon, Newton). In 1965 she began working on "transfigurations", which would lead to body art, where make-up becomes real body painting: from cat-woman, to snake, plant, mineral, African idol and finally to an immortal metallic body (for Rubartelli, director of the films Stop Veruschka and Trülzsch) which survives the natural decay of objects over time.

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Veruschka: A Life for the Camera Cast

Name	Character
Veruschka von Lehndorff She was 66, now 84 years old	as Herself

Veruschka: A Life for the Camera Crew

Name	Department
Paul Morrissey as Director. He was 67 (now 86) years old	Directing
Bernd Böhm as Director.	Directing