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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On the first anniversary of Leni Riefenstahl's death, the Goethe-Institut and UCLA Film and Television Archives, supported by the Fahey/Klein Gallery, team up for a tribute to a filmmaker, whose ...

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 ...

Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most ...

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 ...

Andres Veiel’s “Riefenstahl” is an arresting and deeply disturbing all-archival portrait of the titular Third Reich ...

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 ...