Riefenstahl

Riefenstahl (2024)

Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities.

Date of release
2024-08-29
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (46)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Andres Veiel

Casting

Interesting facts

Riefenstahl is a 2024 German documentary film written and directed by Andres Veiel about the actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

Production

The film was produced by Sandra Maischberger and her production company Vincent Productions, in co-production with WDR, SWR, NDR, BR and rbb. The production was financed by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg.

Stephan Krumbiegel and Olaf Voigtländer, with whom Veiel had already worked on his documentary about Joseph Beuys, and Alfredo Castro took part in the editing of the film. The documentary was edited over a period of eighteen months. Toby Cornish was responsible for the camera work, just as he was for the documentary about Joseph Beuys.

The music for the film was written by Freya Arde, who managed to record the compositions with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg.

In an interview, Veiel said that the documentary warns of the rise of the far-right in the contemporary world. Veiel pointed out that "in the last conversation Leni has on the phone in the movie, she says that it will take one or two generations for Germany to rediscover its role in terms of morality, virtue and order. That's not too far removed from Donald Trump and what he says about immigrants spoiling American blood.

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