"Riefenstahl"

In the organizer's words:

Leni Riefenstahl contributed to the success of the Nazi regime with propaganda films such as "Triumph of the Will", which portrayed Adolf Hitler as godlike. Her closeness to Hitler helped her rise to the highest social circles under National Socialism and become rich and famous as a filmmaker. After 1945, she staged herself as an apolitical artist who had known nothing of the Nazi crimes. However, her estate contains recorded telephone conversations in which she made no secret of her fascist ideology, relativized the Holocaust and denied pogroms.
Riefenstahl's private archive, long guarded in her villa on Lake Starnberg, went to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2018. Journalist and producer Sandra Maischberger and director Andres Veiel have now analyzed the estate on film. The result is "a multi-layered puzzle, which is less about shedding new light on Riefenstahl's involvement in the Nazi regime and more about tracing the continued impact of her films in the present day." (Filmdienst)