BERLIN – What is perhaps most striking about Leni Riefenstahl is that by now, more people may have seen films about her than have sat through her actual films. There have been no fewer than six documentaries to date, quite aside from the countless cameos in other documentaries and films about the Third Reich. She has been valorized and vilified in equal measure throughout her life. Andres Veiel's Riefenstahl , which screened in Germany last year and is appearing in select U.S. cinemas this fall, clearly sets out to be the final word on Hitler's personal filmmaker. In combining footage from an infamous film career as the girl genius of Nazi propaganda and her post-war media confrontations with it, Veiel has a distinct advantage over those who came before him: Leni Riefenstahl is dead.

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