The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crises becomes the great sensation as the new pop star of the arts: the Stuttgart Ballet Miracle.

Art as propaganda and propaganda as art: Joseph Goebbels understood early on that film is an important weapon of ideological warfare. The images that resulted continue to shape our perception of the Nazi era today. FÜHRER UND VERFÜHRER pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of power and alternates between dramatized scenes, archival footage, and eyewitness accounts.