Penetrating and layered portrait of the woman behind the filmmaker
Director: Andres Veiel (Ecocide) - Actors: -
Length: 115 minutes - Language: German, English, French
- Subtitles: Dutch
de Volkskrant: '...a portrait of a filmmaker who never shows her true face...'"
As an artist and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) considered highly controversial. Famous for her Nazi propaganda films Triumph des Willens and Olympia she is seen as a visionary filmmaker, but also as a woman who placed herself in the service of a disastrous ideology. Riefenstahl herself saw it differently; in her long life after the war, she systematically denied close ties to Nazism. She had merely seized an opportunity to use her artistic talents.
Filmmaker Andres Veiel was given free access to Riefenstahl's private archives. From these, he created a film that illustrates the split of the Third Reich's most prominent filmmaker: being a participant and not knowing it.