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After the Nazis were defeated, “Triumph of the Will” director Leni Riefenstahl, stripped of her Third Reich protections but saved from prison by a sympathetic tribunal, realized she’d need to become her greatest propaganda subject yet: selling the world that she was merely a persecuted naif taking a commission — someone who cared only about art, not politics. Hitler’s favorite filmmaker was a victim of history, not one of its ideological profiteers (or so she claimed). “Riefenstahl,” Andres Veiel’s scrupulous, powerful documentary about the documentarian’s efforts to rehabilitate her image and art — a biography folded into an investigation — amounts to one big “not so fast” of a response. It answers Riefenstahl’s carefully chosen narrative, a fable of disillusioned purity, with an equally forensic counternarrative exposing her childlike narcissism about the impact of her talent.-LA Times

“Riefenstahl is a clean, precise piece of documentary film-making, which doesn’t sell itself out with arcs or underscore with music beats, opting for a still but haunting track by Freya Arne”-Screen International 

“Slow-burning but devastating.”-Arts Fuse