Penetrating and layered portrait of the woman behind the filmmaker
Director: Andres Veiel (Ecocide) - Actors: -
Length: 115 minutes - Language: German, English, French
- Subtitles: Dutch
As an artist and filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) is considered one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century. Famous for her Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens and Olympia, she is seen as a visionary, but also as a woman who put herself in the service of a disastrous ideology. Riefenstahl herself saw it differently: despite her connection to Hitler and Goebbels, she systematically denied close ties to Nazism after the war. She had merely seized an opportunity to use her talents. But how could Riefenstahl become the Third Reich's most prominent filmmaker and continue to claim she knew nothing about war crimes?