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 genius and ...
Der Chef der Deutschen Kinemathek, Rainer Rother, ist sich ganz sicher: Leni Riefenstahls (1902-2003) zweiteiliger Film über die olympischen Spiele von 1936 ist „der beste Sportfilm aller Zeiten“. Ich ...
Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part documentary Speer und Er by director Heinrich Breloer (1999) (© Bavaria Media) A woman roaming the mountainside splashes her ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Her films were taught for decades in U.S. film schools for their pictographic excellence, her images bold and dramatic. The ...
EXCLUSIVE: German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won Venice Film Festival’s now defunct Mussolini Cup for best foreign film twice in the 1930s for Triumph of the Will and Olympia. The films, capturing the ...
Leni Riefenstahl wanted to be remembered. The German filmmaker, who directed the infamous 1935 Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” that was commissioned by Adolf Hitler, intended for her estate ...
This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...