Toward the end of her long and controversial life (she died at age 101 in 2003), German director Leni Riefenstahl, forever infamous as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” began to earn some grudging respect - if ...

Propagandists for evil, when exposed, have their work cut out for them. After the Nazis were defeated, “Triumph of the Will” director Leni Riefenstahl, stripped of her Third Reich protections but ...

“My life would have been nicer if I’d died at the peak of my career,” says Leni Riefenstahl in Andres Veiel’s new documentary about her, simply titled “Riefenstahl.” It’s a revealing if characteristic ...

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Andres Veiel’s Venice prizewinning documentary “Riefenstahl,” a critical portrait of Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker and Nazi propagandist who was close ...

Early on in Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” Leni Riefenstahl says that she believes the opposite of politics is art ...

Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics of 1936 earned her both acclaim as a cinematic genius and ...

Andres Veiel’s documentary Riefenstahl – unpicking the deceits of German filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl – has scored a slew of deals following its world premiere at Venice and North ...

EXCLUSIVE: German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won Venice Film Festival’s now defunct Mussolini Cup for best foreign film twice in the 1930s for Triumph of the Will and Olympia. The films, capturing the ...

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Larry talks to author Steven Bach about the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," Leni Riefenstahl, one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. In his new ...

This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis Recent access to Leni ...