Some might wonder why, in 2025, yet another documentary about Leni Riefenstahl , Hitler’s favorite propagandist, is needed. The answer, provided by Riefenstahl filmmaker Andres Veiel during a Q&A (which you can watch below) at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival (where his film was featured on the fest’s annual Docs to Watch panel ), is simple: none of the others had access to Riefenstahl’s own personal archive.

Riefenstahl died in 2003 at the age of 101, but it wasn’t until Horst Kettner , her much younger longtime partner, passed away in 2016, that such a film became possible. At that time, Riefenstahl’s archive — some 700 boxes of text, audio and video — came into the possession of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, with whom producer Sandra Maischberger struc

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