Riefenstahl Dies at 101
Years ago I watched a documentary about a film maker woman with my father. Then, my father told ne about the woman as we watched the film. That was the first time I learned about Leni Riefenstahl. She has witnessed a century. So she was "history". Anyway, she died at 101...
Riefenstahl's legacy will forever be the subject of fierce debate between admirers who praise her pioneering cinematic techniques and those who revile her as a Nazi progagandist. She remains best known for her notorious 1934 documentary The Triumph of the Will, a loving showcase for the rise of the Nazi Party at the Nuremberg rally.
Impressed, Adolf Hitler commissioned her to direct Olympia, Germany's official film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Riefenstahl's involvement with Hitler would cast a shadow over her subsequent career. Although she had never been a member of the Nazi Party, she admitted that she had idolised the Furher and was proud of the films she made for him.
You can find the whole news
here. You might also like to visit
her official web site ( both in english & german). And I also found some tribute sites:
This one has some great praises to her and
Riefenstahl.org is also called Leni's Rising Star.
Posted by Fikirbaz at September 9, 2003 07:29 PM
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