Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German:[ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress, dancer, and propagandist for the Nazis.
Born in 1902 into a LutheranProtestant family, Leni Riefenstahl grew up in Germany with her brother Heinz (1905–1944) who was killed on the Eastern Front in World War II. A talented swimmer and artist, she also became interested in dancing during her childhood, taking dancing lessons and performing across Europe.
After seeing a promotional poster for the 1924 film Der Berg des Schicksals ("The Mountain of Destiny"), Riefenstahl was inspired to move into acting. Between 1925 and 1929, she starred in five successful motion pictures. In 1932, Riefenstahl decided to try directing with her own film called Das Blaue Licht ("The Blue Light"). In the 1930s, she directed Triumph des Willens ("Triumph of the Will") and Olympia, resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. Both movies are widely considered two of the most effective, and technically innovative, propaganda films ever made. Her involvement in Triumph des Willens, however, would significantly damage her career and reputation after the war. The exact nature of her relationship with Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler remains a matter of debate, although a friendship is known to have existed.
"Traum is a 2014 single by German rapper, singer, producer Cro. Released on 9 May 2014, it is his seventh single and is the first release from his 2014 album Melodie. It was also released as a remix CD containing 6 tracks including the radio single, remixes and instrumentals of the song. On February 17, 2015, Cro released an English version of the song titled "Dream" on iTunes.
Winner of the "Best Movie Trailer" RealDreams.io Award and Finalist in the "Narrative" Category of the Project Odyssey AI Film Competition 2024. "Official Selection" and Nominee for "Best AI Film" and "Best AI Film Score" in the Cape Town Squad International Film Festival 2024. "Official Selection" AI Film Awards Venice 2024.
"Riefenstahl" delves into the enigmatic and controversial life of Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker whose artistry was marred by her deep entanglement with Nazi propaganda – which she vehemently and violently denied throughout her life.
Drawing on rigorous academic research, the series employs a rich cinematic language to explore how Riefenstahl's mastery of visual propaganda helped shape, define, and ultimately distort reality and destroy lives in her personal pact wit...
published: 17 Jul 2024
Leni Riefenstahl: Olympia - Festival of Nations (1936)
Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). It was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed —including unusual camera angles, smash cuts, extreme close-ups, placing tracking shot rails within the bleachers, and the like. The techniques employed are almost universally admired, but the film is controversial due to its political context. Neverthele...
published: 24 Oct 2017
Hitler's screen idol - Leni Riefenstahl - WW2 Biography Special
Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most famous works in the service of Adolf Hitler.
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Leni Riefenstahl defending herself in a 1964 interview. English subs.
- The thumbnail for this video is the image discussed by Riefenstahl in the first part of this extract. Doubt has been cast on how far it matches up to her accounts.
- Doubt has also been cast on the real independence of her film company for the Olympic films: https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5h4nb36j&chunk.id=d0e9964&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e9622&brand=ucpress
- Her denials did not shut down the charge that she used Roma and Sinti inmates of the Salzburg Maxglan detention camp:
http://rombase.uni-graz.at/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/hist/holo/camps.en.xml
published: 12 Dec 2022
Riefenstahl on Hitler's oratory
published: 25 Feb 2015
RIEFENSTAHL - Official Trailer - English subtitled
A captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" but kept denying any closer ties to the regime.
Documentary / German, English / 115 minutes
Directed by Andres Veiel
Produced by Vincent Productions in coproduction with WDR, NDR, BR, SWR and rbb in collaboration with Rai Cinema.
World Premiere: Venice International Film Festival
North American Premiere: Telluride Film Festival
published: 21 Aug 2024
Leni Riefenstahl - The Brilliant Works of Hitler's Propagandist
Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most technically gifted Western filmmakers of her era and without a doubt, one of the most controversial figures in the history of film as well.
Explore how her films have legitimised cinema as an effective political tool for persuasion and how they incorporated groundbreaking cinematic techniques that continue to influence the coverage of sports till date.
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EDITOR & NARRATOR: Teng Wei Heng, Mario
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This 10-minute video essay is produced by a Film, Sound & Video diploma student from Ngee Ann Polytechnic for his Film History module in Year 2.
published: 05 Aug 2020
RIEFENSTAHL Trailer German Deutsch (2024) @FilmtoastDE
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Als Regisseurin schuf sie ikonographische Bilder. Ihre ideologische Nähe zum NS-Regime hat sie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg stets zu leugnen versucht. Leni Reifenstahl hat nur eine Darstellung ihrer Biografie zugelassen: ihre eigene. Der Nachlass einer der umstrittensten Frauen des 20. Jahrhunderts erzählt etwas anderes.
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published: 24 Aug 2024
Filmgespräch Riefenstahl mit Sandra Maischberger im Rio München
Im Rio Filmpalast München fand die Vorführung des Films Riefenstahl statt. Anschließend gab es ein Filmgespräch mit Produzentin Sandra Maischberger. Leider war die Beleuchtung im Rio eine Katastrophe und ich war auch zu weit weg im ausverkauften Kino, also ist die optische Qualität bescheiden. Ich habe die Fragen der Zuschauer herausgeschnitten, weil das Rio kein weiteres Mikrofon bereitgestellt hatte. Die Aussagen von Sandra Maischberger sind gut zu verstehen.
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Winner of the "Best Movie Trailer" RealDreams.io Award and Finalist in the "Narrative" Category of the Project Odyssey AI Film Competition 2024. "Official Selec...
Winner of the "Best Movie Trailer" RealDreams.io Award and Finalist in the "Narrative" Category of the Project Odyssey AI Film Competition 2024. "Official Selection" and Nominee for "Best AI Film" and "Best AI Film Score" in the Cape Town Squad International Film Festival 2024. "Official Selection" AI Film Awards Venice 2024.
"Riefenstahl" delves into the enigmatic and controversial life of Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker whose artistry was marred by her deep entanglement with Nazi propaganda – which she vehemently and violently denied throughout her life.
Drawing on rigorous academic research, the series employs a rich cinematic language to explore how Riefenstahl's mastery of visual propaganda helped shape, define, and ultimately distort reality and destroy lives in her personal pact with Hitler, leaving an indelible impact on both history and the art of filmmaking.
This is a concept trailer for the project as a limited TV series. The trailer was made entirely with AI image and video tools. I used Midjourney V6 for AI image creation and Luma.AI Dream Machine V1 for AI video creation. The voices and many of the sound effects were generated in Elevenlabs. ChatGPT helped immensely with planning, brainstorming, proofreading, and constant collaboration. EpidemicSound provided the score music and additional sound effects.
"Riefenstahl" is currently in development. Interested producers or studio executives are welcome to contact me for more information.
Winner of the "Best Movie Trailer" RealDreams.io Award and Finalist in the "Narrative" Category of the Project Odyssey AI Film Competition 2024. "Official Selection" and Nominee for "Best AI Film" and "Best AI Film Score" in the Cape Town Squad International Film Festival 2024. "Official Selection" AI Film Awards Venice 2024.
"Riefenstahl" delves into the enigmatic and controversial life of Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker whose artistry was marred by her deep entanglement with Nazi propaganda – which she vehemently and violently denied throughout her life.
Drawing on rigorous academic research, the series employs a rich cinematic language to explore how Riefenstahl's mastery of visual propaganda helped shape, define, and ultimately distort reality and destroy lives in her personal pact with Hitler, leaving an indelible impact on both history and the art of filmmaking.
This is a concept trailer for the project as a limited TV series. The trailer was made entirely with AI image and video tools. I used Midjourney V6 for AI image creation and Luma.AI Dream Machine V1 for AI video creation. The voices and many of the sound effects were generated in Elevenlabs. ChatGPT helped immensely with planning, brainstorming, proofreading, and constant collaboration. EpidemicSound provided the score music and additional sound effects.
"Riefenstahl" is currently in development. Interested producers or studio executives are welcome to contact me for more information.
Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium ...
Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). It was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed —including unusual camera angles, smash cuts, extreme close-ups, placing tracking shot rails within the bleachers, and the like. The techniques employed are almost universally admired, but the film is controversial due to its political context. Nevertheless, the film appears on many lists of the greatest films of all time, including Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Movies."
Olympia set the precedent for future films documenting and glorifying the Olympic Games, particularly the Summer Games. The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was devised by the German sports official Dr. Carl Diem for these Olympic Games in Berlin. Riefenstahl later staged the torch relay for this film, with competitive events of the Games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(1938_film)
Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). It was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed —including unusual camera angles, smash cuts, extreme close-ups, placing tracking shot rails within the bleachers, and the like. The techniques employed are almost universally admired, but the film is controversial due to its political context. Nevertheless, the film appears on many lists of the greatest films of all time, including Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Movies."
Olympia set the precedent for future films documenting and glorifying the Olympic Games, particularly the Summer Games. The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was devised by the German sports official Dr. Carl Diem for these Olympic Games in Berlin. Riefenstahl later staged the torch relay for this film, with competitive events of the Games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(1938_film)
Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most famous works in the service of Adolf Hit...
Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most famous works in the service of Adolf Hitler.
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Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
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Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Madeline Johnson
Edited by: Monika Worona
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)
Colorizations by:
- Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
- Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim - https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/
Sources:
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Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com.
A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.
Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most famous works in the service of Adolf Hitler.
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Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Madeline Johnson
Edited by: Monika Worona
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)
Colorizations by:
- Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
- Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim - https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/
Sources:
- Bundesarchiv
Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com.
A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.
- The thumbnail for this video is the image discussed by Riefenstahl in the first part of this extract. Doubt has been cast on how far it matches up to her acco...
- The thumbnail for this video is the image discussed by Riefenstahl in the first part of this extract. Doubt has been cast on how far it matches up to her accounts.
- Doubt has also been cast on the real independence of her film company for the Olympic films: https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5h4nb36j&chunk.id=d0e9964&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e9622&brand=ucpress
- Her denials did not shut down the charge that she used Roma and Sinti inmates of the Salzburg Maxglan detention camp:
http://rombase.uni-graz.at/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/hist/holo/camps.en.xml
- The thumbnail for this video is the image discussed by Riefenstahl in the first part of this extract. Doubt has been cast on how far it matches up to her accounts.
- Doubt has also been cast on the real independence of her film company for the Olympic films: https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5h4nb36j&chunk.id=d0e9964&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e9622&brand=ucpress
- Her denials did not shut down the charge that she used Roma and Sinti inmates of the Salzburg Maxglan detention camp:
http://rombase.uni-graz.at/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/hist/holo/camps.en.xml
A captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" but kept denying ...
A captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" but kept denying any closer ties to the regime.
Documentary / German, English / 115 minutes
Directed by Andres Veiel
Produced by Vincent Productions in coproduction with WDR, NDR, BR, SWR and rbb in collaboration with Rai Cinema.
World Premiere: Venice International Film Festival
North American Premiere: Telluride Film Festival
A captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" but kept denying any closer ties to the regime.
Documentary / German, English / 115 minutes
Directed by Andres Veiel
Produced by Vincent Productions in coproduction with WDR, NDR, BR, SWR and rbb in collaboration with Rai Cinema.
World Premiere: Venice International Film Festival
North American Premiere: Telluride Film Festival
Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most technically gifted Western filmmakers of her era and without a doubt, one of the most controversial figures in the history ...
Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most technically gifted Western filmmakers of her era and without a doubt, one of the most controversial figures in the history of film as well.
Explore how her films have legitimised cinema as an effective political tool for persuasion and how they incorporated groundbreaking cinematic techniques that continue to influence the coverage of sports till date.
-
EDITOR & NARRATOR: Teng Wei Heng, Mario
-
This 10-minute video essay is produced by a Film, Sound & Video diploma student from Ngee Ann Polytechnic for his Film History module in Year 2.
Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most technically gifted Western filmmakers of her era and without a doubt, one of the most controversial figures in the history of film as well.
Explore how her films have legitimised cinema as an effective political tool for persuasion and how they incorporated groundbreaking cinematic techniques that continue to influence the coverage of sports till date.
-
EDITOR & NARRATOR: Teng Wei Heng, Mario
-
This 10-minute video essay is produced by a Film, Sound & Video diploma student from Ngee Ann Polytechnic for his Film History module in Year 2.
Majestic Filmverleih wird RIEFENSTAHL am 31. Oktober 2024 bundesweit in die Kinos bringen.
Abonniere gern auch unseren Hauptkanal: https://www.youtube.com/cha...
Im Rio Filmpalast München fand die Vorführung des Films Riefenstahl statt. Anschließend gab es ein Filmgespräch mit Produzentin Sandra Maischberger. Leider war ...
Im Rio Filmpalast München fand die Vorführung des Films Riefenstahl statt. Anschließend gab es ein Filmgespräch mit Produzentin Sandra Maischberger. Leider war die Beleuchtung im Rio eine Katastrophe und ich war auch zu weit weg im ausverkauften Kino, also ist die optische Qualität bescheiden. Ich habe die Fragen der Zuschauer herausgeschnitten, weil das Rio kein weiteres Mikrofon bereitgestellt hatte. Die Aussagen von Sandra Maischberger sind gut zu verstehen.
Blog: https://redaktion42.com
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Im Rio Filmpalast München fand die Vorführung des Films Riefenstahl statt. Anschließend gab es ein Filmgespräch mit Produzentin Sandra Maischberger. Leider war die Beleuchtung im Rio eine Katastrophe und ich war auch zu weit weg im ausverkauften Kino, also ist die optische Qualität bescheiden. Ich habe die Fragen der Zuschauer herausgeschnitten, weil das Rio kein weiteres Mikrofon bereitgestellt hatte. Die Aussagen von Sandra Maischberger sind gut zu verstehen.
Blog: https://redaktion42.com
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Winner of the "Best Movie Trailer" RealDreams.io Award and Finalist in the "Narrative" Category of the Project Odyssey AI Film Competition 2024. "Official Selection" and Nominee for "Best AI Film" and "Best AI Film Score" in the Cape Town Squad International Film Festival 2024. "Official Selection" AI Film Awards Venice 2024.
"Riefenstahl" delves into the enigmatic and controversial life of Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker whose artistry was marred by her deep entanglement with Nazi propaganda – which she vehemently and violently denied throughout her life.
Drawing on rigorous academic research, the series employs a rich cinematic language to explore how Riefenstahl's mastery of visual propaganda helped shape, define, and ultimately distort reality and destroy lives in her personal pact with Hitler, leaving an indelible impact on both history and the art of filmmaking.
This is a concept trailer for the project as a limited TV series. The trailer was made entirely with AI image and video tools. I used Midjourney V6 for AI image creation and Luma.AI Dream Machine V1 for AI video creation. The voices and many of the sound effects were generated in Elevenlabs. ChatGPT helped immensely with planning, brainstorming, proofreading, and constant collaboration. EpidemicSound provided the score music and additional sound effects.
"Riefenstahl" is currently in development. Interested producers or studio executives are welcome to contact me for more information.
Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). It was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed —including unusual camera angles, smash cuts, extreme close-ups, placing tracking shot rails within the bleachers, and the like. The techniques employed are almost universally admired, but the film is controversial due to its political context. Nevertheless, the film appears on many lists of the greatest films of all time, including Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Movies."
Olympia set the precedent for future films documenting and glorifying the Olympic Games, particularly the Summer Games. The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was devised by the German sports official Dr. Carl Diem for these Olympic Games in Berlin. Riefenstahl later staged the torch relay for this film, with competitive events of the Games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(1938_film)
Leni Riefenstal's film techniques were groundbreaking and are still influential today. She did, though, create her most famous works in the service of Adolf Hitler.
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Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Madeline Johnson
Edited by: Monika Worona
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)
Colorizations by:
- Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
- Olga Shirnina, a.k.a. Klimbim - https://klimbim2014.wordpress.com/
Sources:
- Bundesarchiv
Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com.
A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.
- The thumbnail for this video is the image discussed by Riefenstahl in the first part of this extract. Doubt has been cast on how far it matches up to her accounts.
- Doubt has also been cast on the real independence of her film company for the Olympic films: https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5h4nb36j&chunk.id=d0e9964&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e9622&brand=ucpress
- Her denials did not shut down the charge that she used Roma and Sinti inmates of the Salzburg Maxglan detention camp:
http://rombase.uni-graz.at/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/hist/holo/camps.en.xml
A captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" but kept denying any closer ties to the regime.
Documentary / German, English / 115 minutes
Directed by Andres Veiel
Produced by Vincent Productions in coproduction with WDR, NDR, BR, SWR and rbb in collaboration with Rai Cinema.
World Premiere: Venice International Film Festival
North American Premiere: Telluride Film Festival
Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most technically gifted Western filmmakers of her era and without a doubt, one of the most controversial figures in the history of film as well.
Explore how her films have legitimised cinema as an effective political tool for persuasion and how they incorporated groundbreaking cinematic techniques that continue to influence the coverage of sports till date.
-
EDITOR & NARRATOR: Teng Wei Heng, Mario
-
This 10-minute video essay is produced by a Film, Sound & Video diploma student from Ngee Ann Polytechnic for his Film History module in Year 2.
Im Rio Filmpalast München fand die Vorführung des Films Riefenstahl statt. Anschließend gab es ein Filmgespräch mit Produzentin Sandra Maischberger. Leider war die Beleuchtung im Rio eine Katastrophe und ich war auch zu weit weg im ausverkauften Kino, also ist die optische Qualität bescheiden. Ich habe die Fragen der Zuschauer herausgeschnitten, weil das Rio kein weiteres Mikrofon bereitgestellt hatte. Die Aussagen von Sandra Maischberger sind gut zu verstehen.
Blog: https://redaktion42.com
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Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German:[ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress, dancer, and propagandist for the Nazis.
Born in 1902 into a LutheranProtestant family, Leni Riefenstahl grew up in Germany with her brother Heinz (1905–1944) who was killed on the Eastern Front in World War II. A talented swimmer and artist, she also became interested in dancing during her childhood, taking dancing lessons and performing across Europe.
After seeing a promotional poster for the 1924 film Der Berg des Schicksals ("The Mountain of Destiny"), Riefenstahl was inspired to move into acting. Between 1925 and 1929, she starred in five successful motion pictures. In 1932, Riefenstahl decided to try directing with her own film called Das Blaue Licht ("The Blue Light"). In the 1930s, she directed Triumph des Willens ("Triumph of the Will") and Olympia, resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. Both movies are widely considered two of the most effective, and technically innovative, propaganda films ever made. Her involvement in Triumph des Willens, however, would significantly damage her career and reputation after the war. The exact nature of her relationship with Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler remains a matter of debate, although a friendship is known to have existed.