Director – Andres Veiel – 2024 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** An unsettling, deep dive into the indisputable artistic talent, evasive personality and self-reconstructed memory of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl through her personal archive of some 700 boxes – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Sepia / yellow images. A […]
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- Post date 9 May 2025
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