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Partner. Horst Kettner [ fr] (from 1968) Website. leni-riefenstahl .de. Signature. Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl ( German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ⓘ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda.
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Apr 4, 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. Riefenstahl studied painting and ballet in Berlin, and from 1923 ...
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Jun 2, 2010 · Some of the visual ideas in “Metropolis” seem echoed in Leni Riefenstahl's pro-Hitler “Triumph of the Will” (1935) — where, of course, they have lost their irony. “Metropolis” does what many great films do, creating a time, place and characters so striking that they become part of our arsenal of images for imagining the world.
Apr 26, 2018 · Leni Riefenstahl and Adolf Hitler in 1938 at the premiere of her first Olympia movie. ... Write an article and join a growing community of more than 182,200 academics and researchers from 4,941 ...
The Leni Riefenstahl critique takes us in the direction of debates over guilt and innocence, art and propaganda, fascism and democracy. We cannot escape these. oscillations between praise and damnation if we hold onto the. concepts that generate them: art and artist, genius and masterpiece, toady and propagandist.
Aug 10, 2016 · Alamy. Riefenstahl had impressed Hitler with Triumph of the Will, a documentary of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg (Credit: Alamy) The film’s one glaring flaw is that she isn’t very ...
Mar 25, 2007 · Leni Riefenstahl, by her own account, grew into a true "child of nature, beneath trees and bushes, with plants and insects, watched over and protected." Being outdoors in nature was essential to her.
