Victory or Death - The Many Lives of Monika Ertl
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              Germany
              
      Project status
              In development
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  Monika Ertl is a teenager when her family emigrates to Bolivia in 1953. She assists her father, Leni Riefenstahl's infamous cameraman, and marries a wealthy man. But then she becomes a leftist activist, joins Che Guevara's Liberation Army, turns into an assassin in the struggle against the dictatorship in 1971, and finally tries to hunt down her antagonist Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal embedded in the Bolivian regime. The film uses archive footage, interviews witnesses and integrates scripted elements to re-write the history of her extraordinary life. It poses the urgent question: What would you do in the face of tyranny?
 
      