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Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial personalities in film history. Regarded by many critics as an "innovative filmmaker and creative aesthete", she is also criticized for her works in the service of propaganda during the Nazi era.
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entertainment · German filmmaker (1902–2003) · film producer · film editor · screenwriter · film actor · film director · actor · photographer · director · dancer · filmmaker · also Leni Riefenstahl, Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, Leni Riefensthal, Berra Helene Amalia Riefenstahl, Lenie Riefenstahl, Leni Jacob
Born 22 August 1902 · Died 8 September 2003 · Q55415
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2026· 4 entries
“It was the biggest catastrophe of my life. Until the day I die people will keep saying,”
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“She gave me the usual song and dance. She said,”
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“With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany”
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2024· 1 entry
Director Andres Veiel released a documentary titled Riefenstahl
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2021· 1 entry
Was the subject of Nigel Farndale's novel The Dictator's Muse
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2011· 1 entry
Director Steven Soderbergh revealed that he had also been working on a biopic of Riefenstahl for about six months
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2007· 1 entry
British screenwriter Rupert Walters was reported to be writing a script for the movie
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2003· 1 entry
Died 2003-09-08.
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2002· 2 entries
When Riefenstahl was 100 years old and she was taken to court by a Roma group for denying the Nazis had exterminated Romani
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Steven Bach wrote that "Riefenstahl disturbs because she remains the adamant, fierce, glib voice of the 'how could we have known
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2000· 2 entries
While trying to learn the fates of her Nuba friends during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and was airlifted to a Munich hospital, where she received treatment for two broken ribs
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Jodie Foster was planning a biographical drama on Riefenstahl, then seen as the last surviving member of Hitler's "inner circle", causing protests, with the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's dean Marvin Hier warning against a re
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1993· 1 entry
Riefenstahl was the subject of the award-winning German documentary film The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, directed by Ray Müller
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1978· 1 entry
Riefenstahl published a book of her sub-aquatic photographs called Korallengärten ("Coral Gardens"), followed by the 1990 book Wunder unter Wasser ("Wonder under Water")
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1974· 1 entry
And republished in 1976 as Die Nuba (translated as "The Last of the Nuba") and Die Nuba von Kau ("The Nuba People of Kau")
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1960· 1 entry
Riefenstahl attempted to prevent filmmaker Erwin Leiser from juxtaposing scenes from Triumph des Willens with footage from concentration camps in his film Mein Kampf
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1956· 1 entry
And later Sudan, where she photographed Nuba tribes with whom she sporadically lived, learning about their culture so she could photograph them more easily
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1954· 2 entries
Her work as a photographer, her autobiography in 1987, underwater photographs and two photo books on the Nuba peoples of southern Sudan
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Jean Cocteau, who greatly admired the film, insisted on Tiefland being shown at the Cannes Film Festival, which he was running that year
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1944· 2 entries
After her brother died on the Russian Front
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“I regret that Sinti and Roma [people] had to suffer during the period of National Socialism. It is known today that many of them were murdered in concentration camps”
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1938· 1 entry
Won Mussolini Cup for Triumph of the Will (1938).
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1937· 1 entry
“To me, Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived. He truly is without fault, so simple and at the same time possessed of masculine strength.”
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1933· 1 entry
Riefenstahl appeared in the U
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1932· 4 entries
Decided to try directing with her own film, The Blue Light
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And was mesmerized by his talent as a public speaker
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Co-written by Carl Mayer and Béla Balázs
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“I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget. It seemed as if the Earth”
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1918· 1 entry
When she was 16, Riefenstahl attended a presentation of Snow White which interested her deeply; it led her to want to be a dancer
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-08-22.
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