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Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth (2020)

7.7 | Oct 22, 2020 (DE) | Documentary | 00:53

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.

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Christine Hegeler
Narrator (voice)
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Nina Gladitz
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Jochen Böhler
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Eva Hohenberger
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Dieter Hinrichs
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Willy Zielke
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Béla Balázs
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Joseph Goebbels
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Hermann Göring
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