Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth (2020)

Plot Summary

Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have not seen them in their entirety. The work of the German director has burned itself into the collective memory. Even decades after the end of the Nazi era, she showed no remorse and presented herself as an apolitical, naive follower of the Nazi criminal regime. Her artistic service for the cinema was always recognized. But book author Nina Gladitz shows after decades of research that Hitler's favorite filmmaker was not only a follower, but also a perpetrator during the Third Reich, who instrumentalized other filmmakers such as the brilliant cinematographer Willy Zielke in order to gain fame for herself.

Full Cast & Characters

Christine Hegeler

Narrator (voice)

Nina Gladitz

Self - Interviewee

Jochen Böhler

Self - Interviewee

Eva Hohenberger

Self - Interviewee

Dieter Hinrichs

Self - Interviewee

Leni Riefenstahl

Self (archive footage)

Willy Zielke

Self (archive footage)

Béla Balázs

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Heinrich Himmler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Director & Crew

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