{"id":176278,"date":"2025-12-10T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176278\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:03:12","slug":"riefenstahl-documentary-director-andres-veiel-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176278\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Riefenstahl&#8217; Documentary Director Andres Veiel Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSome might wonder why, in 2025, yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/documentary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_documentary_1\" data-tag=\"documentary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">documentary<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/leni-riefenstahl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leni-riefenstahl_1\" data-tag=\"leni-riefenstahl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leni Riefenstahl<\/a>, Hitler\u2019s favorite propagandist, is needed. The answer, provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/riefenstahl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_riefenstahl_1\" data-tag=\"riefenstahl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riefenstahl<\/a> filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/andres-veiel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andres-veiel_1\" data-tag=\"andres-veiel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andres Veiel<\/a> during a Q&amp;A (which you can watch below) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/scad-savannah-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scad-savannah-film-festival_1\" data-tag=\"scad-savannah-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SCAD Savannah Film Festival<\/a> (where his film was featured on the fest\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/scad-savannah-film-festival-docs-to-watch-panel-video-1236430170\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Docs to Watch panel<\/a>), is simple: none of the others had access to Riefenstahl\u2019s own personal archive.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6_Riefenstahl_director-Andres-Veiel_c-ArnoDeclair.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"295\" width=\"196\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRiefenstahl director Andres Veiel<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArno_Declair<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRiefenstahl died in 2003 at the age of 101, but it wasn\u2019t until Horst Kettner, her much younger longtime partner, passed away in 2016, that such a film became possible. At that time, Riefenstahl\u2019s archive \u2014\u00a0some 700 boxes of text, audio and video \u2014 came into the possession of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, with whom producer Sandra Maischberger struck a deal: in return for first-look privileges, she and a team of filmmakers would review all of the materials and make them the subject of a film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter that, Veiel, a veteran of highly ambitious docs, was convinced to sign on as director and embarked on a years-long effort not just to catalogue Riefenstahl\u2019s materials, but also to suss out the degree to which they reflected reality. As he discusses during this Q&amp;A, the brilliant but deceptive trailblazing female filmmaker did indeed curate the items to try to burnish her legacy \u2014\u00a0but couldn\u2019t keep the underlying truth hidden from him and his collaborators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some might wonder why, in 2025, yet another documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler\u2019s favorite propagandist, is needed. 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