Leni Riefenstahl
August 22, 1902 · 124 years old
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Na…
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7 titles
Triumph of the Will
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
Riefenstahl
Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities.
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
The Holy Mountain
Diotima meets Karl in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. When Karl's friend, Vigo, meets her, he mistakenly believes she is in love with him. Karl then believes that she is betraying him with his friend.
Hitler's Hollywood
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.