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Riefenstahl (9/10) by Tony Medley 119 minutes. NR. This story of Nazi cinematographer Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) has been masterfully put together by writer/director Andres Veiel, who was given unprecedented access to all her files and records. It took him more than five years to go over all the material and put together this captivating story of such an enigmatic woman. Was she a collaborative Nazi or just a filmmaker? The film has a narrator but it is mostly Leni telling her story by herself from her first diary from 1948, recordings of private phone calls with people like Albert Speer, a collection of unpublished photos and 8mm footage from the ‘30s and drafts of her memoirs among a treasure trove of memorabilia. It starts out with cuts from a 1976 TV talk show with Leni being interviewed by Ein Grespäch where she is challenged by a contemporary woman, Elfriede Kretschmer, who castigates her for not speaking up. Apparently Leni was inundated with letters of support after the show aired. Although Veiel found evidence that she was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis as early as 1932, she maintains throughout that she was just a filmmaker and was unaware of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, which she repeats over and over and over. She was a beautiful woman throughout her life. When she was over 60 she began a relationship with Horst Keppler, 40 years her junior that continued the rest of her life. Abused by her father, she had been an actress during the late ‘20s before she became a filmmaker. She was an accomplished skier and there are shots of her skiing in her later years and also as a young woman. There are also clips from her films, most notably Olympia (1938) about the 1936 Olympics and many of her shots, especially of the high divers, are almost lyrical, highlighted by unusual angles from which the shots are taken. There are also the propaganda shots of Nazi gatherings and huge crowds of supporting Germans from Triumph of the Will (1935). There is no denying Leni’s talent. This is a fascinating film about a woman of whom many have heard, but few have known.
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