Too artistic, too modern and avant-garde for the Nazi soul – was that the reason why the Munich director Willy Zielke fell out of favor with the regime in 1935 with his film “Das Stahltier”? And ended up in psychiatry? Or did the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl have her fingers in the pie? There are still many unresolved questions surrounding the Willy Zielke case. Filmmaker Nina Gladitz gets to the bottom of these questions in her book “Leni Riefenstahl: The Career of a Perpetrator”.
Nazi era: What part did Riefenstahl play in the downfall of your rival? – District of Munich
