Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit
6
90 minutes
7/2/2015
Overview
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 ...
Cast List
Tobias Moretti
as Luis Trenker
Brigitte Hobmeier
as Leni Riefenstahl
Marc Benjamin
as Erich Kempka
Ole Eisfeld
as Sam
Anatole Taubman
as Paul Kohner
Rouven Blessing
as Young Filmmaker
J. David Hinze
as Max - Manager
André Jung
as Arnold Fanck
Franco Moscon
as Journalist
Andrea Pergolesi
as Carmelo
Hanuš Polak jr.
as Bergtourist
Peter Schorn
as Reporter
Timo Alexander Wenzel
as Kellner
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
as Joseph Goebbels
Doris Buchrucker
as Mutter Braun
Julia Gschnitzer
as Mutter Trenker
Felix Hellmann
as Hans Schneeberger
Anna Unterberger
as Journalistin