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Riefenstahl, Leni (Berta Helene Amalie) (1902–2003)

German film-maker, actor, and photographer. Her film of the Nazi rallies in Nürnberg, Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will (1934), vividly illustrated Hitler's charismatic appeal but tainted her career. She followed this with a filmed two-part documentary on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games – Olympiad: Fest der Volker/Festival of the Nations and Olympiad: Fest der Schönheit/Festival of Beauty.

She trained as a dancer, appearing in films in the 1920s, but in the early 1930s formed her own production company, and directed and starred in Das blaue Licht/The Blue Light (1932). After World War II she was imprisoned by the French for four years for her Nazi propagandist work. Unable to pursue her film career after being blacklisted, she turned to photography. Her visits to Africa are documented in several volumes of photographs, including The Last of the Nuba (1973) and Mein Afrika/My Africa (1982).
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It was an impressive performance which was enhanced by the high profile of the occasion at a time of heightened international tension, and by the film director Leni Riefenstahl paying particular attention to the long-jump in her celebrated movie "Olympia".
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of Hertfordshire, UK) was part of the legal team that attempted to bring documentary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to trial for Holocaust Denial in 2002, and she uses that experience as a backdrop for providing a perspective on Joseph Goebbels and how his Propaganda Ministry affected the second largest film industry in the world.
Nazis and the cinema. (reprint, 2007) by Reference & Research Book News
He dreamed up the ceremony, sold the concept to Josef Goebbels - the Fuhrer's PR man - who passed it on to his rather creepy film director floozie, Leni Riefenstahl.
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