The celebrated documentary filmmaker Andres Veiel in an interview about Hitler's propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, her stubbornness, her life lies, finds from 700 boxes of estate – and a warning from the future.
The documentary filmmaker Andres Veiel is famous for getting very close to the protagonists of his documentaries without shying away from ambivalence. In “Black Box BRD” (2001) he portrayed both victims and perpetrators of RAF terror; in “Beuys” in 2017 he wove photos, excerpts from interviews and film footage into a complex posthumous essay about the political artist Joseph Beuys. This film inspired Sandra Maischberger, here as a producer in the background, to hire Veiel as a director for a documentary about Leni Riefenstahl (theatrical release: October 31, 2024).
