She Withheld Empathy From Everyone But Herself: Andres Veiel on Riefenstahl

Andres Veiels Riefenstahl is an arresting and deeply disturbing all-archival portrait of the titular Third Reich actor-director, responsible for some of the most innovative filmmaking of the 20th century as well as horrific war crimes (though Riefenstahl would go to her grave insisting she knew nothing of the mass murder taking place all around her, let alone the power of her propaganda). That said, Hitlers cinematic mouthpiece would undoubtedly agree that great art requires great sacrifice - ju...