Plot

Legendary South Tyrolean mountain climber and director Luis Trenker offers Eva Braun's diaries to Hollywood agent Paul Kohner at the Venice Film Festival in 1948. Film director Leni Riefenstahl sues to have the authenticity of the diaries verified because they claim she was once Hitler's mistress. The story of these two famous opportunists is told in flashbacks, from their brief romance to their ruthless competitive bouts to their backing by Hitler and Goebbels and their artistic successes.—Gretta Hovhannisyan

In the summer of 1948, mountaineer, actor and film director Luis Trenker travels to the Venice Film Festival to revive his faltering career. He has a sensational coup lined up that's guaranteed to put his name back in the headlines: the exclusive rights to Eva Braun's diary. Meanwhile, legendary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is preparing a devastating blow against her one-time lover Luis Trenker. She wants to block the publication and filming of the diary which she claims is slanderous towards her and implies that she had been Hitler's mistress. Trenker, who easily interweaves fact and fiction, claims that Hitler's girlfriend entrusted her diary to him in the final days of the war. A battle between two larger-than-life personalities is about to be unleashed, a duel between pioneer filmmakers who have gone down into history as faithful servants of a murderous ideology. Inspired by the clash between legendary Alpine mountaineer Luis Trenker and Hitler's favorite filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.