Curiously, for a woman who directed a movie called Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl seemed to lose control over her own person when she first met Adolf Hitler. “I had hot sweats,” the German ...

That’s not how Leni Riefenstahl wanted to be remembered. No, she preferred a more self-serving myth – that she was “only an artist,” perhaps a bit naïve, who took on filmic “assignments” from the ...

To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps? In the documentary “Riefenstahl,” which debuted at the 2024 Venice Film ...

Cineuropa: Leni Riefenstahl's legacy was made public eight years ago. As is always the case with an estate like this, you want to create a certain image of yourself. What was your approach to ...

Some might wonder why, in 2025, yet another documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite propagandist, is needed. The answer, provided by Riefenstahl filmmaker Andres Veiel during a Q&A ...

Leni Riefenstahl remains a problem to be solved, not because there’s any doubt about who she was, but because we are uncertain as to who we are. Riefenstahl, a filmmaker of exceptional talent, worked ...

A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state. Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for ...

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 ...

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.' ...

And maybe in Germany itself, that’s been the case with film-maker Leni Riefenstahl who may have had more documentaries made about her than she made herself during her years as Hitler’s favourite ...

Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part documentary Speer und Er by director Heinrich Breloer (1999) (© Bavaria Media) A woman roaming the mountainside splashes her ...