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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.
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.
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.
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...
Aug 10, 2016 · Is Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Nazi propaganda – or the greatest film about sport ever made? Nicholas Barber takes a look.
She was Hitler's favorite director. She was beautiful and talented. She was a woman in a man's field. Leni Riefenstahl (REEF-en-shtal), who remained active into her late 90s, was never able to shed the historical contamination that attached to her during the last half of her 101 years.
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 acclaimed as a cinematic genius -- and ostracized after World War II as a propagandist for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, which financed her films.
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…
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.
