The story of the most celebrated of all Nazi propagandists, who spent the rest of her life getting very tetchy whenever anyone brought up that unpleasant Holocaust business. This documentary unearths an impressive amount of evidence for the prosecution and I'm glad we have…

Will Sloan

I hope this film will become the definite statement on Leni Riefenstahl's legacy, because this is exactly how she deserves to be remembered. The film paints her as a woman who was obsessed with how she is perceived by others - on a superficial level (as evidenced by the…

Christof

Shaking my head every few seconds so everybody in the cinema knows I hate Nazis

Lou

let's Riefenstahl monstrous words speak for themselves, while adding archival context to prove the veracity of all the acts she participated in that she claimed were lies and does not deify her filmmaking prowess as if that absolves her of her horrors.

Marya E. Gates

Turns out the woman who shot Triumph of the Will for Hitler wasn't actually a nice person

Jonas_Ja

Andres Veiel’s rich investigative documentary “Riefenstahl” states the obvious: The infamous German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was an outright Nazi. But as with any good film, the key isn’t what it’s about but how it’s about it. Given full access to the personal archive of…

Robert Daniels

Auch wenn er strukturell oft sehr unrund ist, schafft der Film es doch recht eindrücklich, seine Argumente zu vermitteln. Recht geduldig geht es durch das Leben und Werk von Leni Riefenstahl, bei der mittlerweile allen klar sein müsste, dass sie eine überzeugte…

Yannick

can't help but think that this is a pretty pointless documentary overall that lacks focus and a narrative throughline. Just because it's a documentary based on archive footage doesn't excuse just dumping stuff in front of you to create a scattered profile of a complicated…

Ewan Graf

Flat-out jaw dropping.

Robert Daniels