EXCLUSIVE: 'They didn't want to see it!' Director says humiliated Huma Abedin and her disgraced husband Anthony Weiner REFUSED to preview new documentary detailing the fallout from his second sexting scandal 

The notorious story of New York politician Anthony Weiner, who torpedoed his 2013 bid to be mayor of the Big Apple when he was caught for a second time sending lewd texts and photos to various women, is coming soon to a theater near you.

The documentary movie Weiner, taken from some 400 hours of footage filmed with Weiner's permission during his mayoral campaign, premiered yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival.

And Daily Mail Online was there to see the no-holds-barred portrait of the former US Congressman as he crashes and burns, taking his wife Huma Abedin - Hillary Clinton's close friend and political advisor - with him.

The 90-minute film which will be in theaters in May and on Showtime in October reveals Huma's pain, humiliation and anger. 

At one point she says her life's 'like living in a nightmare.' But she stands by her husband after he publicly admits violating her trust. 

Still, when he goes to vote in the election she refuses to go with him, on the counsel of an advisor believed to be one of Hillary Clinton's aides.

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Disgraced politician: Documentary movie Weiner, taken from some 400 hours of footage filmed with Anthony Weiner's permission during his mayoral campaign, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

Caught: The then-New York congressman resigned in 2011 following a sexting scandal. This is one of the several shirtless selfies Weiner sent out to women during his marriage

Close friends: Huma Abedin, wife of Anthony Weiner, is a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton. She took the stage with her in December 2015 after a Democratic presidential primary debate in New Hampshire

Huma's biggest 'indignity' is when one of her husband's sex text girls - urged on by radio disc jockey Howard Stern - chases him through a McDonald's as he tries to prevent her from confronting him.

Hot-tempered Weiner is frequently seen having meltdowns, in one of which he almost comes to blows with a Jewish man who calls him a 's***bag' and another where he threatens to 'kick the a**' of TV talk show host Laurence O'Donnell.

Widespread TV coverage of both run-ins don't seem to worry him. After watching tape of the 'scumbag' incident, he's more irritated that one of the TV cameras has revealed his bald spot than the argument and he laughs while watching his fight with O'Donnell.

Even as his political - and personal - life is falling apart around him he's cracking jokes. After another of his sexting bimbos threatens to tell her story, he's filmed in his car, cackling as he tells one Rodney Dangerfield one-liner after another. And again he seems more irritated by a TV camera revealing his bald spot than by the girl's revelations

Despite all the setbacks, lurid scandals and mocking from late night TV hosts, in the end he still refuses to quit. Just before he garnered a paltry 4.93 per cent of the mayoral vote, he's seen on camera asking himself, 'If I had more time, could I rebound again?'

In the midst of his humiliation and embarrassment - all captured on film - the cameraman asks him, 'Why have you let me film this?' It's the same question many of the people in the Sundance audience were asking. 

Weiner says that he doesn't regret it. 'I wanted to be viewed as the full person I was. It's kind of like, "Besides that Mrs Lincoln, how was the show?"'

The first part of Weiner shows old footage of the fiery, passionate representative from New York, an outspoken rising star in the U.S. Congress. 

Suddenly the archive film in 2011 shows news clips of photos of bulging men's underwear that Weiner had sent to one of his sexting gals. Even Wolf Blitzer of CNN is seen asking Weiner 'Are these your underpants?'

First he hedges, then he admits it, expresses regret and refuses to resign. Then he does resign and, fast forward two years and he decides enough time has passed for him to revive his battered political career and run for Mayor of New York.

Enter Josh Kriegman, Weiner's one time chief of staff when he was a New York Congressman.  Kriegman had left politics to launch a career in movies and he approached his old boss and still close friend about documenting his mayoral campaign. 

Weiner - with visions of capturing on film his triumphal return as Mayor, agreed.

By his side: 'It took a lot of work and therapy to forgive him. I love him and have forgiven him.' Huma agreed - reluctantly - to appear with her husband at a press conference after another sexting scandal broke during his run for New York City mayor

Political pressure: Documentary co-director Elyce Steinberg flatly denies claims that Hillary Clinton pressured the moviemakers to take out some sensitive parts of the film

Avoiding appearances: A Clinton aide advised Huma not to go with her husband Anthony Weiner to vote in the election

'He was not far removed from a really disgraceful sexting scandal,' said Kriegman after yesterday's screening. 'This was a remarkable comeback story. Then things took a turn - and we kept filming.'

Kriegman could have no way of knowing just how much 'things took a turn.' One of the first questions Weiner is asked on camera is how Huma felt about him going back into politics. 

She supported him, says Weiner. 'She was eager to get her life back that I had taken from her. I wanted to clean up the mess I made and running for mayor was the strongest way to do it.'

Scenes show the Weiners' happy home life, playing with their toddler son Jordan and their pets. Huma hits the campaign trail with her husband, helping to raise money, leading the campaign volunteers and being the perfect political wife. At one fundraiser, dressed in a striking red dress, she tells the crowd, 'I love my city and I believe in my husband.'

Within months he's running first in the polls, despite the naysayers and critics, including Donald Trump, who said at the time, 'We don't want perverts elected in New York City.' The filmmakers include lots of clips of women working on his campaign and singing his praises along with scenes of Weiner kissing babies while a crowd of New Yorker chant, 'Everybody deserves a second chance.'

Weiner is shown triumphantly telling his campaign staff ,'We're back.' But here, director Kriegman is just setting up his audience. In July of 2013, the bomb dropped. Reports started surfacing that Weiner had been up to his old tricks, sending lewd texts and pictures to female pen pals.

Watching a TV report of website Dirty. com airing seedy revelations about her husband posting the texts under the name Carlos Danger, Huma shakes her head in disgust. She paces in front of him, staring at him with an angry look that says 'Not again.' 

Despite her obvious fury, Huma remains calm. She even coolly tells a staffer to 'look happy' when she leaves the couple's New York apartment which at the time was besieged by reporters. 

Huma agrees - reluctantly - to appear with her husband at a press conference where, with a smile that looks forced, she tells reporters that she had faced the same crisis two years earlier. 

'It took a lot of work and therapy to forgive him. I love him and have forgiven him.' What's not clear from that is, has she forgiven him for the old transgressions - or the new ones?

He gets irritated by his communications director Barbara Morgan playing devil's advocate and posing questions he might be asked by reporters. 'Was it multiple people or just the one? Do you think you're suffering from any kind of addiction?' 

He waffles and snaps at her giving no definitive answers.

Sex scandal: Sydney Leathers claims she had phone sex with Weiner - 'sometimes five times a day'

Bigger plans: 23-year-old Leathers made a sex tape for Vivid, plus did an interview in which she detailed some of her and Weiner's sexy phone calls

Weiner apologized to his campaign team but adds that they must 'go on' and 'look normal.' It doesn't satisfy several of the let-down crew. 'I'm frustrated at your lack of clarity with me,' says one. 'I feel like we were left in the dark,' says another.

Weiner confesses that he did 'these dumb things' but adds 'It's behind me.' 

Then, out of the woodwork comes 23-year-old Sydney Leathers, claiming that she'd been having phone sex with him 'sometimes five times a day.' She made a sex tape for Vivid, plus an interview in which she detailed some of their sexy phone calls.

Appearing on Lawrence O'Donnell's show on MSNBC and the host asks him, 'What's wrong with you?' 

Weiner loses his temper, yelling at O'Donnell, 'Bigger guys than you have been trying to knock me down.' When O'Donnell repeats the question, Wiener tells him to stop 'or I'll come on this show and kick your ass.'

Later he tells the movie cameraman he 'hates bullies.' But while watching a tape of the O'Donnell encounter, he starts laughing, prompting an obviously shocked Huma to ask: 'Why are you laughing - it's bad.' 

He says: 'It's funny.' She shoots him a look of bewilderment, then finally walks out of the room saying: 'I can't watch any more.'

When a New York newspaper uses a front page photo of Huma asking 'What's wrong with you?' meaning why is she staying with her beleaguered husband, a frustrated Weiner springs to her defense saying: 'It's not fair to her - I've created this problem.'

It was a low point for Huma. When a cameraman asks her how she's feeling, she says, with a sad look: 'It's like living in a nightmare.'

Four weeks before the election he'd gone from first to fourth in the polls, with an 'unfavorability rating' of 80 percent - yet he's filmed in his car with Barbara Morgan, rattling off Rodney Dangerfield jokes.

His campaign adviser 'Phillippe' - Hillary Clinton's close aide, Phillippe I. Reines - saw nothing funny in the faltering state of Weiner's bid for mayor and on the phone he tells him, 'There's no chance to win any more.' 

When Weiner suggests putting out a message saying 'I ain't quitting,' Reines gives a resounding no and tells Weiner that if he goes that route, it would be 'a solo flight.'

At a town hall meeting, where he's heckled by several people, he admits he 'violated the trust of my wife'. But then he defiantly adds…'New Yorkers don't quit - I won't quit.' In the car afterward though, he drops the bravado and admits, with a look of exhaustion , 'I'm done.'

Two weeks before election day comes filmed meltdown No. 2. In a visit to a diner, a guy wearing a yarmalke (skullcap) calls Weiner a 'scumbag.' Weiner comes back with 'It takes one to know one' and from that point it escalated into a screaming match, with the two men nose to nose, matching insults, all in front of the TV news cameras. 

Several witnesses of the diner incident were left shaking their heads. 'Why didn't he just walk away,' one old man tells the camera. After the incident, Weiner seems more irritated - yet again - by one of the TV cameras revealing his bald spot than the fight.

Humiliated: Watching a TV report of seedy revelations about her husband's continued sexting Huma shakes her head in disgust, documentary reveals

'Happy' family: Scenes show the Weiners' happy home life, playing with their toddler son Jordan and their pets. Huma hits the campaign trail with her husband, helping to raise money, leading the campaign volunteers and being the perfect political wife

Hillary's name is brought back into the movie - yet again - when a reporter, suggesting that Weiner's scandal made him a political liability for his Clinton advisor wife, asks him if Huma would have to make a choice between him or Hillary, he refused to answer. 

Huma meanwhile is becoming more and more reluctant to make campaign appearances and things start getting snippy between them.

When she says she doesn't want to face reporters because she won't know what to say, he says, 'You could say I think Anthony is doing an amazing job' - at which she throws him a look of disgust and shrugs. 

In another exchange she asks what she should be doing in his campaign and he snaps, 'act like you're married to me.'

On election day, Reines advises Huma that it would not be wise to be seen in public that day with Weiner so she refuses to cast her vote alongside him. 

Instead he takes their son Jordan along to cast his ballot and tells reporters that his wife isn't with him because of a scheduling conflict.

To make matters worse - if that's possible - Sydney Leathers, whom Weiner's staff have given the code name 'Pineapple' appears on Howard Stern's radio show saying Weiner had 'p***ed her off because he lied on TV that he'd changed - and I'm the living proof that he didn't.' 

When Leathers revealed that she'd never actually met Weiner in person, the ever mischievous Stern suggested she should go out and confront him on election day, along with a camera crew.

She camps outside Weiner's office and one of his staffers announces it's time to 'execute the McDonald's plan.' 

This involves sneaking Weiner out through the back of a nearby McDonald's and there's a hilarious sequence in the movie with Leathers chasing as he makes his escape.

While it may be funny, the McDonalds incident also summed up the humiliation Huma's been put through by her husband. 'I'm not going to face the indignity of being accosted by that woman,' she tells him.'

After yesterday's Sundance screening of Weiner, Kriegman's co-director, Elyce Steinberg flatly denied recent claims that Hillary Clinton had pressured the moviemakers into taking out some sensitive parts of the film - although did not appear to deny that there had been attempts to do precisely that.

'No footage was taken out because of pressure from Hillary Clinton,' she said. 'Our hope is that the film can be part of the political conversation.'

Kriegman also denied other reports that Anthony and Huma Weiner had asked to see the movie before its release but were turned down. 'We offered to show it to them a while ago,' he told Daily Mail Online. 'But they said they didn't want to see it.'