Trenker and Riefenstahl2015

Director
Wolfgang Murnberger

Acters

Brigitte Hobmeier (Leni Riefenstahl)
Tobias Moretti (Luis Trenker)
Anatole Taubman (Paul Kohner)
Marc Benjamin (Erich Kempka)
Andre Jung (Arnold Fanck)
Giacomo Lorenzi (American financial investor)

1948: Legendary mountaineer Luis Trenker offers Eva Braun’s diaries to a Hollywood agent. Director Leni Riefenstahl sues to have them verified, because they claim that she was Hitler’s mistress.

In the summer of 1948, mountaineer, actor and film director Luis Trenker travels to the Venice Film Festival to revive his faltering career. He has a sensational coup lined up that’s guaranteed to put his name back in the headlines: the exclusive rights to Eva Braun’s diary. Meanwhile, legendary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is preparing a devastating blow against her one-time lover Luis Trenker. She wants to block the publication and filming of the diary which she claims is slanderous towards her and implies that she had been Hitler’s mistress. Trenker, who easily interweaves fact and fiction, claims that Hitler’s girlfriend entrusted her diary to him in the final days of the war. A battle between two larger-than-life personalities is about to be unleashed, a duel between pioneer filmmakers who have gone down into history as faithful servants of a murderous ideology. Inspired by the clash between legendary Alpine mountaineer Luis Trenker and Hitler’s favorite filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

“Film is carefully balanced. Murnberger tells the story with moderate irony, Moretti is perfect, Hobmeier is divine.” – Tittelbach.tv

“Brilliant in its opulence and captivating in its political explosiveness, it is a great drama.” – Film Dienst

“All in all, a very worthwhile film. The real biographies of the protagonists are exciting and the cast is first-class.” – Gala.de