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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]
Jul 5, 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.
Leni Riefenstahl (Helene Riefenstahl) was a German dancer, actress, and film director best known for her imposing propaganda films in support of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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...
Leni Riefenstahl. Producer: The Blue Light. Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage.
LENI RIEFENSTAHL was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer. She became already so famous after her first dance hat Max Reinhardt engaged her for the »Deutsches Theater«.
Leni Riefenstahl was a young German actress and director, who in 1933 was appointed the head of the Nazi film unit. 2. She was tasked with filming NSDAP rallies, events and propaganda films reflecting the core values of the party.
Aug 10, 2016 · Is Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Nazi propaganda – or the greatest film about sport ever made? Nicholas Barber takes a look.
Sep 6, 2023 · She is best known as a Nazi film director but as the large illustrated biography Leni Riefenstahl: five lives ( S415.a.200.1) indicates, there were other aspects of her life – dancer and actress before 1933, and photographer and diver after 1945 – and these, rather than her work in the Third Reich, will be the focus of this blog post.
Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl discusses her role in Nazi Germany and whether her movies were propaganda. Aired on CBC's Other Voices on May 11, 1965. Film excerpts from Olympia...
