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Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl ( German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ⓘ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda. [1] [2] [3]
May 14, 2024 · Leni Riefenstahl (born August 22, 1902, Berlin, Germany—died September 8, 2003, Pöcking) was a German motion-picture director, actress, producer, and photographer who is best known for her documentary films of the 1930s dramatizing the power and pageantry of the Nazi movement.
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Born in Berlin on August 22, 1902, Riefenstahl began her long and extraordinary career as an interpretive dancer. After a knee injury temporarily halted her vocation, Riefenstahl became fascinated with the possibilities of the medium of film, especially nature films. She became the star of a number of German director Arnold Fanck's silent motion pi...
By her own account, the advent of World War II and the rapid escalation of violence under the Nazi regime had an unfavorable effect on both Riefenstahl and her career. Early in the Polish campaign, an incident seemed to have shaken Riefenstahl's confidence in the movement she had glorified in cinematic images. While accompanying German troops near ...
After the war Riefenstahl attempted to separate herself from the criminal nature of the Nazi regime, suggesting her duty was to her craft and not necessarily to the Nazi authorities who commissioned her films. In what she and others would later claim was an effort to eschew further propaganda efforts, Riefenstahl had begun filming Tiefland (Lowland...
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Helene Bertha Amalie „Leni“ Riefenstahl (* 22. August 1902 in Berlin; † 8. September 2003 in Pöcking) war eine deutsche Filmregisseurin, -produzentin und -schauspielerin sowie Drehbuchautorin, Schnittmeisterin, Fotografin und Tänzerin. Sie gilt als eine der umstrittensten Persönlichkeiten der Filmgeschichte.
Sep 9, 2003 · Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics of 1936 earned her both acclaim as a cinematic...
Learn about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, the legendary filmmaker, photographer and diver. Discover her achievements, awards, controversies and travels from Berlin to the Nuba mountains.
Aug 10, 2016 · Is Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Nazi propaganda – or the greatest film about sport ever made? Nicholas Barber takes a look.
