Seniorenkino: RIEFENSTAHL

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Senior movie: RIEFENSTAHL

Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her iconographic imagery of "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia" stands for perfectly staged body worship, for the celebration of the superior and victorious. And at the same time for what these images do not tell: the contempt for the imperfect, the supposedly sick and weak, the superiority of some over others. The aesthetics of their images are more present than ever - and therefore also their message? The film explores this question using documents from Riefenstahl's estate - private films and photos, recorded telephone conversations with close companions, personal letters. Image by image, facet by facet, it uncovers fragments of her biography and places them in an expanded context of history and the present.