La sombra del iceberg
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La sombra del iceberg is a 2007
documentary film
that claims the photograph The Falling Soldier
by Robert Capa
was staged and that Federico Borrell García
was not the individual in the picture.
The documentary makes several claims:
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
documentary film
Documentary film
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that claims the photograph The Falling Soldier
The Falling Soldier
The Falling Soldier is a famous photograph taken by Robert Capa, understood to have been taken on September 5, 1936 and long thought to depict the death of a Republican, specifically an Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth soldier during the Spanish Civil War, who was later identified as the...
by Robert Capa
Robert Capa
Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...
was staged and that Federico Borrell García
Federico Borrell García
Federico Borrell García was a Spanish Republican and anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War known for appearing in the famous Robert Capa photo The Falling Soldier.-Biography:...
was not the individual in the picture.
The documentary makes several claims:
- A 1937 Spanish anarchist publication claimed that Federico Borrell died behind a tree.
- A specialist in forensic science claimed after analyzing pictures of Borrell and pictures of the militiaman that the militiaman depicted is not Federico Borrell García.
- In 1975 a journalist named Gallaher said that Capa told him that the picture was staged.
- An astronomical study concludes that the picture was taken at 9:00 a.m., not at 17:00. No battle happened at 9:00.