That of Andrés Veiel Riefenstahla new documentary about famed Nazi-era German director Leni Riefenstahl, has sold well internationally after its world premiere at the Venice and Telluride film festivals.
Beta Cinema, which is handling worldwide sales on the film, has secured deals for the documentary across Europe, including with ARP for France, Filmin for Spain, Midas Filmes for Portugal, Edge Entertainment in Scandinavia, Against Gravity for Poland, Cirko Film for Hungary, Imagine in Benelux and MCF for the former Yugoslav territories. Longride Entertainment will distribute the film in Japan. Other territories are currently in negotiations.
In Germany, Riefenstahl will be distributed by Majestic, with Italian distribution handled by the film’s co-producer, Rai Cinema.
Veiel and Riefenstahl The producer, German journalist and political talk show host Sandra Maischberger, spent six years combing through more than 700 boxes of film, writings, audio and other material from Leni Reifenstahl’s personal archive for this film. It aims to debunk many of the “myths” that have arisen around Riefenstahl, the Nazi propaganda film maker. The Triumph of the Will And Olympiaafter the war — including that she was a naive artist, was not close to Adolf Hitler, and knew nothing about the Holocaust before World War II.
Veiel is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and occasional feature filmmaker who has spent his career examining controversial and divisive figures in German history. He spotlighted the left-wing German terrorist group RAF in a 2001 documentary BRD Black Box and in the feature-length fiction film If not us, who? (2011) and explored the life and art of German avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys in the 2017 documentary Beuys.
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