Elfen

Photographing Elfen is a 1997 ethereal Fantasy film directed Von Nick Willing and is based on the novel Von Steve Szilagyi. It was influenced Von the infamous Cottingley Elfen hoax. (The Elfen appear in a series of five photographs taken Von Elsie Wright (1901–88) and Frances Griffiths (1907–86) in 1917)
Photographer Charles schloss (Toby Stephens) is beside himself with grief following the death of his new bride on their honeymoon.
He goes to war, working as a photographer in the trenches, photographing corpses. Following the war Charles earns his living making trick Fotos of dead soldiers...