Year
1995
Distributor
Kino International (Chatsworth, Calif.)
Country
US
Video Standard
NTSC
OCLC
960458282
Language
ENG
"Examines the life and career of the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. She began as a dancer, was discovered by Max Reinhardt and became a star. Arnold Franck's mountain films entranced her and she talked her way into starring in one. She wrote and directed her own films and attracted the notice of Adolf Hitler. She became the filmmaker of the Nazis and made Triumph of the Will and Olympia. During World War II, she began but never finished the film Tiefland. She talks about her involvement with the Nazis. She was tried as a war criminal, but was not found guilty although she was not allowed to make another film. She started another career as a still photographer, became interested in Africa and made anthropological films there. At the age of 90, she scuba dives and shoots underwater films."
Interviews with Leni Riefenstahl, now in her nineties, flash-backs and modern film sequences tell the story of the most famous woman film director of all time. Known for her films made during the Third Reich, Riefenstahl's story is a controversial one. Best known for her "Triumph of the Will," the film made of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress, it proved to be her undoing
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