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Cinemania

RIEFENSTAHL
RIEFENSTAHL

• Director: Andres Veiel 
• GERMANY / 2024 / DCP / Colour and B&W / 115’ / German, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Andres Veiel 
• Director of Photography: Toby Cornish
• Editing: Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer, Alfredo Castro
• Music: Freya Arde
• Cast: Anlatan Narrator: Andrew Bird
• Producer: Sandra Maischberger
• Production Co.: Vincent Productions GmbH
• World Sales: Beta Cinema

2025 Dublin Best Documentary

Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century as an artist and a Nazi propagandist. Her films Triumph of the Will and Olympia stand for perfectly staged body worship and the celebration of the superior and victorious. At the same time, these images project contempt for the imperfect and weak. Riefenstahl’s aesthetics are more present than ever today. But is that also true for their implied message? The film examines this question using documents from Riefenstahl’s estate including private films, photos, voice recordings, files, and letters. It uncovers fragments of her biography and places them in an extended historical context. How could Riefenstahl become the Reich’s preeminent filmmaker and keep denying any closer ties to Hitler and Goebbels? During her long life after the fall of Nazism, she remained unapologetic, managing to control and shape her legacy. Riefenstahl premiered at the Venice Film Festival where Triumph of the Will won a gold medal in 1935.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.