Nazi-adjacent mountaineers peddling Eva Braun's diaries? Austrian cinema doesn't mess around.
Luis Trenker - South Tyrolean mountaineering legend, actor and director - traveled to the Venice Film Festival in the summer of 1948. He wants to offer Eva Braun's diaries to the American Hollywood agent Paul Kohner for filming. At the same time, the authenticity of these diaries is negotiated before the Munich district court. The director Leni Riefenstahl, ex-lover of Trenker, feels disgraced by the implication that she was Hitler's lover. The story is told in flashbacks of two opportunists who, possessed by the will for artistic success, instrumentalize themselves ...
Acting
Moretti's Trenker: all Alpine swagger and zero self-awareness.
Writing
Courtroom framing cleverly interrogates who owns history.
Director
Wolfgang Murnberger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Trenker did attempt to sell 'Eva Braun's diaries' in 1948; they were later proven forgeries.
Murnberger's film sparked debate in Austria about sanitizing Trenker's legacy — the 'Heimat' filmmaker who quietly never renounced his Nazi-era success.
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