Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit

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

Tobias Moretti

Luis Trenker

Brigitte Hobmeier

Leni Riefenstahl

Marc Benjamin

Erich Kempka

N/A

Ole Eisfeld

Sam

Anatole Taubman

Paul Kohner

Rouven Blessing

Young Filmmaker

J. David Hinze

Max - Manager

André Jung

Arnold Fanck

Franco Moscon

Journalist

N/A

Andrea Pergolesi

Carmelo

N/A

Hanuš Polak jr.

Bergtourist

Peter Schorn

Reporter