Greetings Anna Schoeppe, Managing Director of Hessen Film & Medien GmbH Dr. Sven Schoeller, Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel Collage as a preview of the film trilogy / 12 min. A chance discovery: German premiere of the film trilogy (1996-1999): Kassel, années 30: une trilogie allemande (Kassel, 30s: a German trilogy) by Catherine Bernstein. Oma, France 1996 Les Raisins verts (The Green Grapes), France 1998 Les Absentes (The Absent Ones), France 1999 Riefenstahl Regie: Andres Veiel / Deutschland 2024 / 116 Min. / deutsch / englische UT
Leni Riefenstahl was the first German female director to achieve worldwide fame and at the same time, she remains the most controversial. Today, her aesthetics of superiority are once again increasingly copied in political contexts. She always denied any ideological closeness to the Nazi regime and hid behind her art. In his film, Andres Veiel lets her extensive legacy speak for itself. (Livia Theuer)
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