After accepting the deal that Goebbels forces on him, he makes some forgettable movies and finds himself working as an adviser to none other than Leni Riefenstahl, whom Pabst, back in 1929, had ...

Riefenstahl's last film, Tiefland, was released in 1954, 14 years after the project started and was interrupted by World War II. Although returning to film represents an old dream finally fulfilled, ...

Leni Riefenstahl: what are we to make of her? What did she know? Often described as ‘Hitler’s favourite filmmaker’, she always claimed that she knew nothing of any atrocities. She was a naive artist, ...

Here, for instance, is a conversation about art and morality that he conjures up between Pabst and his wife Trude, who was an actress and writer: " [A]ll this will pass [Pabst tells Trude].

Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s favourite film-maker: ‘After the first page of Mein Kampf she became an enthusiastic Nazi’ Andres Veiel’s authoritative new documentary is a damning portrait of ...

But Riefenstahl – who first broke into the German film industry as an actress – spent decades after the war denying her association with Nazi ideology and claiming ignorance of the Holocaust.

LENI RIEFENSTAHL’s work, particularly her two documentaries of the Nazi era, Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), is often used as the starting point for a discussion of whether great art ...

Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), Hitler’s favourite filmmaker, has been a subject of controversy for decades – explored in documentaries such as The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl ...

Leni Riefenstahl made some of the Nazis' most notorious propaganda films, but denied any knowledge of the Holocaust until the day she died. This documentary tries to find the truth, and help us ...

But Riefenstahl – who first broke into the German film industry as an actress – spent decades after the war denying her association with Nazi ideology and claiming ignorance of the Holocaust.