Leni Riefenstahl is a filmmaker who has gone down in notoriety as the propaganda filmmaker of Hitler’s Third Reich. Following the collapse of the Nazi regime she attempted to rehabilitate her image, claiming she was swept up in the passion of events and was unaware of the horrors of the concentration camps and the treatment of Jewish citizens.
However, a new documentary has uncovered archived material from the Riefenstahl estate that puts a different light on the filmmaker’s claims.
Stephen Hill asked the director of Riefenstahl Andre Veile what drew him to examine the life of this pioneering but morally compromised filmmaker
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Produced By: Stephen Hill
Featured In Story: Andres Veiel, director of the documentary ‘Riefenstahl’
First aired on The Wire, Tuesday 29 April 2025