Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany’s most controversial directors, is one of 17 German films playing in the various ...

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The documentary screens out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, the same festival where Leni Riefenstahl won a gold medal for The Triumph of the Will in 1935 and the top prize, the Coppa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bad timing explains the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s presentation of Riefenstahl, Andres Veiel’s documentary about the late German actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. The exhibition of ...

Brandeis University professor Thomas Doherty looks back on the Nazi director's 1938 visit to Hollywood ahead of the BBC Radio 4 broadcast of Colin Shindler's new radio play 'Leni Goes to Hollywood.' ...

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 ...

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 ...