Throughout the 1950s and 60s, images of Audrey Hepburn dazzled the world.

More than just a Hollywood movie star, she was also a new kind of fashion icon. Her waif-like figure redefined Hollywood standards of beauty. But few people knew she owed her slender physique to the long-term effects of wartime starvation. Growing up under German occupation in Holland, Hepburn had a traumatic childhood scarred by fear, malnutrition and the emotional distress of her father walking out of the family home.

Throughout her career her enigmatic smile inspired some of the most famous photographers in the world. But this film reveals that painful memories of terror and loss were never far from the surface. Show less