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Riefenstahl (2024)

Documentary | 115 minutes
3,31 26 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 115 minuten

Country: Germany

Directed by: Andres Veiel

Stars: Leni Riefenstahl and Ulrich Noethen

IMDb score: 7,2 (1.669)

Releasedate: 31 October 2024

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Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century. Using new material from the archives and the estate of Leni Riefenstahl, Andreas Veiel examines Riefenstahl's complex relationship with the Nazi regime, oscillating between her embellished portrayal and incriminating evidence of her knowledge of the atrocities committed by the regime.

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Fransman

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Today's NRC has an interesting review that actually makes clearer what this documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows, than the documentary itself does. I found it a rather fragmented whole, a long sit and I kept wondering what this documentary actually wants to show. That Leni Riefensthal was a convinced Nazi and a great admirer of Adolf Hitler, of whom she even made a house altar? We already knew that. Incidentally, the house altar is not in this documentary.

We already knew that she was a brilliant filmmaker and propagandist for National Socialism. You only have to see the films 'Triumpf des Willen' and 'Olympia' to understand how devilishly cleverly they were made. And how Hitler is depicted in them in a way that only an admirer can do.

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hvdriel

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We know that Leni Riefenstahl was a unique woman who succeeded in realizing her ambitions in a man's world: to become an unforgettable director of the great German Reich. Anyone who sees Triumph des Willens (Reichstag 1934) and Olympia (Olympic Games, Berlin 1936) recognizes her undeniable qualities.

We know that Leni Riefenstahl spent her long life after WWII making it clear that she was (and is) an artist who had (and has) no knowledge of politics. She willingly spoke to anyone to emphasize this, spent ten years writing her autobiography, and continually "cleaned" her personal archive in order to confirm her intended image.

We know that Leni Riefenstahl was a manipulative woman who could explode in anger when questions became too insistent, who glowed with the fan mail she received and who, after Albert Speer's release, could be counted among his intimate friends.

If we already know all this, what does this documentary add to our knowledge?

Little to nothing, I'm afraid.

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