Leni Riefenstahl shooting Olympia in 1936, alongside Nazi leaders Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring. Despite Veiel’s best efforts, any criminal evidence against Leni Riefenstahl remains tantalizingly circumstantial, even if the circumstances themselves were indisputably criminal. The artist Leni Riefenstahl, so she would have it, is innocent of all charges because she was ignorant of all the political ugliness and saw only beauty. The artist Leni Riefenstahl, so she would have it, is innocent of all charges because she was ignorant of all the political ugliness and saw only beauty. (Vincent Productions)Where Veiel’s film locks itself into a loop of attempting to show just how much of a Nazi Leni Riefenstahl was, it falls short.