Send Email. [56] They thought the film might symbolize the love-hate relationship between Germany and France. [citation needed], The 2017 video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (which takes place in an alternative 1961 where the Nazis won World War 2) features a supporting character heavily implied to be Riefenstahl, voiced by actress Kristina Klebe. [16] She is protected by a glowing mountain grotto. Controversial film-maker Leni Riefenstahl, who made the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, has died aged 101. After Riefenstahl told him how much she admired his work, she also convinced him of her acting skill. '"[62] Even though she went on to win up to 50 libel cases, details about her relation to the Nazi party generally remain unclear. In 1993, Riefenstahl was the subject of the award-winning German documentary film The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, directed by Ray Müller. Her reaction shots have a tedious sameness: shining, ecstatic faces—nearly all young and Aryan, except for Hitler's". Saunders writes, "Without denying that “rampant masculinity” (the “sexiness” of Hitler and the SS) serves as the object of the gaze, I would suggest that desire is also directed toward the feminine. Greenman's Leni revolves around the making of Triumph of the Will and has seen productions all over the United States. [15] She began to suffer a series of foot injuries that led to knee surgery that threatened her dancing career. [92] To make her sympathetic portrayal acceptable to an American audience, the film dramatizes her quarrels with Goebbels over her direction of Olympia, especially about filming the African American star who is proving to be a politically embarrassing refutation of Nazi Germany's claims of Aryan athletic supremacy. While heralded by many as outstanding colour photographs, they were harshly criticized by Susan Sontag, who wrote in a review that they were further evidence of Riefenstahl's "fascist aesthetics". The accompanied music conveys the meaning behind the images, that of national pride. [28] She edited and dubbed the remaining material and Tiefland premiered on 11 February 1954 in Stuttgart. Riefenstahl appeared in the film and answered several questions and detailed the production of her films. Riefenstahl is one of the protagonists of the story "Parachute" from the collection Even This Wildest Hope (2019) by Seyward Goodhand. In 1993, Riefenstahl was the subject of the award-winning German documentary film Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl (1993), directed by Ray Müller. [48] However, her relationship with Hitler severely declined in 1944 after her brother died on the Russian Front. In the 2004 play Leni, by playwright Sarah Greenman, we meet two Leni Riefenstahls, one in the passionate prime of her youth and the other at the end of her life looking back. [33][35] Riefenstahl filmed competitors of all races, including African-American Jesse Owens in what later became famous footage. [51][48] Riefenstahl sued filmmaker Nina Gladitz, who said Riefenstahl personally chose the extras at their holding camp; Gladitz had found one of the Romani survivors and matched his memory with stills of the movie for a documentary Gladitz was filming. Berta Helene Amalie Leni Riefenstahl (født 22. august 1902, død 8. september 2003) var en tysk skuespillerinde, danserinde, filmfotograf og instruktør berømmet for sin æstetiske sans. [9], Most of Riefenstahl's unfinished projects were lost towards the end of the war. [37], Olympia premiered for Hitler's 49th birthday in 1938. [87] In 2007 British screenwriter Rupert Walters was reported to be writing a script for the movie. [5] Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote, "I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget. In a state where women played a secondary role to men, Riefenstahl was given a free hand by Hitler to produce propaganda films for the Nazi regime. After seeing a promotional poster for the 1924 film Mountain of Destiny, Riefenstahl was inspired to move into acting. Besides directing, Riefenstahl released an autobiography and wrote several books on the Nuba people. [36] Riefenstahl's work on Olympia has been cited as a major influence in modern sports photography. ), német filmrendező. [46], After the Nuremberg rallies trilogy and Olympia, Riefenstahl began work on the movie she had tried and failed to direct once before, namely Tiefland. Members of Rammstein praised Riefenstahl's filmmaking abilities and aesthetic choices in a 2011 documentary of the making of the video, particularly the imagery of the athletes, while simultaneously disassociating themselves from her politics. When Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, Riefenstahl was photographed in Poland wearing a military uniform and a pistol on her belt in the company of German soldiers; she had gone to Poland as a war correspondent. [68] She also sold some of the pictures to German magazines. Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics … Film Estate of Hitler's filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, donated to Berlin foundation. [9] She walked out of a holding camp, beginning a series of escapes and arrests across the chaotic landscape. [13] Riefenstahl's books with photographs of the Nuba tribes were published in 1974 and republished in 1976 as Die Nuba (translated as "The Last of the Nuba") and Die Nuba von Kau ("The Nuba People of Kau"). • Leni Riefenstahl was born Helene Berta Amalie Riefenstahl in Berlin in August 1902. How can we ever thank you? Any systematic, widespread dissemination or promotion of particular ideas, doctrines, practices, etc. ... Leni Riefenstahl, Hinter den Kulissen des Reichsparteitag Films, Munich, 1935. [44][18] On 12 September, she was in the town of Końskie when 30 civilians were executed in retaliation for an alleged attack on German soldiers. Many advanced motion picturetechniques, which later became industry standards but which … Berta Helene Amalie (Leni) Riefenstahl (Berlijn, 22 augustus 1902 – Pöcking, 8 september 2003) was een Duits cineaste en fotografe.Zij begon haar carrière als danseres en actrice, maar werd vooral bekend als filmregisseur. Her most famous work was Triumph of the Will, a propaganda film showing a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934. Leni Riefenstahl became Nazi Germany’s most famous film maker. The German film director and photographer Leni Riefenstahl, who has died aged 101, will be remembered for two innovative, visually eloquent and lavishly funded documentaries, Triumph of … By replacing diegetic sound, Riefenstahl’s film employs music to combine the documentary with the fantastic. [5], Hitler was immediately captivated by Riefenstahl's work. [16] She persuaded him to feature her in one of his films. The films are widely considered two of the most effective, and technically innovative, propaganda films ever made. [50] From 23 September until 13 November 1940, she filmed in Krün near Mittenwald. [49] This time Sinti and Roma people from the Marzahn detention camp near Berlin were compelled to work as extras. [9] In 1918, when she was 16, Riefenstahl attended a presentation of Snow White which interested her deeply; it led her to want to be a dancer. [42] The flag serves as a symbol of masculinity, equated with national pride and dominance, that channels men's sexual and masculine energy. Riefenstahl’s film work intersected with the Nazi genocide machine during two years of production on “Lowlands,” about a dancer courted by two suitors. – Pöcking, 2003. szeptember 8. [85] Riefenstahl, who for some time had been working on her memoirs, decided to cooperate in the production of this documentary to tell her life story about the struggles she had gone through in her personal life, her film-making career and what people thought of her. Her involvement in Triumph des Willens, however, significantly damaged her career and reputation after World War II, due to the actions the Nazis committed in that conflict. [89], Riefenstahl was referred to in the series finale of the television show Weeds when Nancy questions Andy for naming his daughter after a Nazi to which he replied "she was a pioneer in film-making, I don't believe in holding grudges. The film is also noted for its slow motion shots. Robert Sklar: Film, an international history of het medium, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York , 1993, 560 blz, vele afbeeldingen. [13], Riefenstahl attended dancing academies and became well known for her self-styled interpretive dancing skills, traveling across Europe with Max Reinhardt in a show funded by Jewish producer Harry Sokal. Riefenstahl was a consummate stylist obsessed with bodies in motion, particularly those of dancers and athletes. Experiment in the Film. Leni Riefenstahl's career included work as a dancer, actress, film producer, director, and also a photographer, but the rest of Leni Riefenstahl's career was shadowed by her history as a documentary maker for Germany's Third Reich in the 1930s. In her dressing room she is "visited" by herself as a young woman portrayed by Valeria Kozhevnikova at three stages/turning points in her life: as a dancer (1924), an actress (1929) and a director (1940). In diesem Film spielte Leni Riefenstahl eigentlich nur mit, weil ihr hier erstmals eine Rolle als Schauspielerin angeboten worden war. [52], This issue came up again in 2002, when Riefenstahl was 100 years old and she was taken to court by a Roma group for denying the Nazis had exterminated Romani. [91], Riefenstahl was portrayed by Dutch actress Carice van Houten in Race, a sports drama film directed by Stephen Hopkins about Jesse Owens. Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl Film director and actress, photographer, dancer, Germany Leni Riefenstahl at work on the film cutting table - 1935 Leni Riefenstahl Naked discus thrower in classical pose| scene from Leni Riefenstahl's film 'Olympia', part 1: 'Festival of the Peoples' - 1936 The 1993 film documentary about Riefenstahl by Ray Müller, The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, is available in videotape and DVD versions. 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). Riefenstahl began a lifelong companionship with her cameraman Horst Kettner, who was 40 years her junior and assisted her with the photographs; they were together from the time she was 60 and he was 20. [17] This film won the Silver Medal at the Venice Film Festival, but was not universally well-received, for which Riefenstahl blamed the critics, many of whom were Jewish. It was the first documentary feature film of an Olympic Games ever made. [18] By later accounts, Goebbels thought highly of Riefenstahl's filmmaking but was angered with what he saw as her overspending on the Nazi-provided filmmaking budgets. In the 1930s, she directed the Nazi propaganda films Triumph des Willens ("Triumph of the Will") and Olympia, resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. The film was a template for her more famous work, Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), shot at the Nuremberg Rally the following year, in 1934. [13], Riefenstahl said that her biggest regret in life was meeting Hitler, declaring, "It was the biggest catastrophe of my life. Riefenstahl's filming merits are discussed between characters in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds. Adolf Hitler was in close collaboration with Riefenstahl during the production of at least three important Nazi films, and they formed a friendly relationship. [74] In 1987 an autobiography about Riefenstahl was released, Leni Riefenstahl's Memoiren, regarding her life as a filmmaker and her post-war life. Riefenstahl became a favourite of German dictator Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, making films for his fascist regime. [18][19] Upon its 1938 re-release, the names of Balázs and Sokal, both Jewish, were removed from the credits; some reports say this was at Riefenstahl's behest. [54] As Germany's military situation became impossible by early 1945, Riefenstahl left Berlin and was hitchhiking with a group of men, trying to reach her mother, when she was taken into custody by American troops. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures.With Fanck as her mentor, Riefenstahl began directing films. [39] Riefenstahl maintained that Goebbels was upset when she rejected his advances and was jealous of her influence on Hitler, seeing her as an internal threat. [9] In the end, the film project was called off. His wife, however, continued to support her daughter's passion. By contrast and paradoxically, the flags, whether a few or hundreds peopling the frame, assume distinct identities".[42]. Ernst Iros in Experiment in the Film, edited by Roger Manvell. Film Estate of Hitler's filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, donated to Berlin foundation. It was released in North America on February 19, 2016. [5] The opportunity that was offered was a huge surprise to Riefenstahl. [9] After waking up from a coma in a Nairobi hospital, she finished writing the script, but was soon thoroughly thwarted by uncooperative locals, the Suez Canal crisis and bad weather. Pabst. Leni Riefenstahl — Biography For Alfred Riefenstahl, the owner of a secure and successful heating and ventilation firm based in Berlin, and his wife Bertha Scherlach, August 22, 1902 was the date of the proud birth of their first child that they named Helene Bertha Amalie (aka Leni) Riefenstahl. [23] She and Hitler got on well, forming a friendly relationship. [45] Riefenstahl reportedly wanted Sharon Stone to play her rather than Foster. 1949. [58][46] She visited Kenya for the first time in 1956 and later Sudan, where she photographed Nuba tribes with whom she sporadically lived, learning about their culture so she could photograph them more easily. [14] In 1960, Riefenstahl attempted to prevent filmmaker Erwin Leiser from juxtaposing scenes from Triumph des Willens with footage from concentration camps in his film Mein Kampf. [14] Years later, Riefenstahl photographed Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried & Roy. Riefenstahl. [31] Riefenstahl said this film was a sub-set of Der Sieg des Glaubens, added to mollify the German Army which felt it was not represented well in Triumph des Willens. Leni Riefenstahl is for sure an excellent director, even if in this film … [9] Although both film professionals and investors were willing to support her work, most of the projects she attempted were stopped owing to ever-renewed and highly negative publicity about her past work for the Third Reich. [6] After the war, Riefenstahl was arrested, but classified as being a "fellow traveler" or "Nazi sympathizer" only and was not associated with war crimes. [25] More than one million Germans participated in the rally. Hun blev især berømt for sit kontroversielle arbejde som Hitlers chefinstruktør, som bl.a. Leni Riefenstahl, who did more than any other artist to shape the image of the Third Reich, died in her sleep Monday night in Berlin. [9] However, it was denied entry into the Cannes Film Festival. Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics … [40] On 18 November, she was received by Henry Ford in Detroit. [16] Fanck was working on a film in Berlin. [18] Nevertheless, by 5 October 1939, Riefenstahl was back in occupied Poland filming Hitler's victory parade in Warsaw. [45], In 2011, director Steven Soderbergh revealed that he had also been working on a biopic of Riefenstahl for about six months. [9] Without her father's knowledge, she enrolled Riefenstahl in dance and ballet classes at the Grimm-Reiter Dance School in Berlin, where she quickly became a star pupil. [9] Even so, Riefenstahl was granted Sudanese citizenship for her services to the country, becoming the first foreigner to receive a Sudanese passport. [31] Like Der Sieg des Glaubens and Triumph des Willens, this was filmed at the annual Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg. [88], In 1998 Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein released a cover of the Depeche Mode song "Stripped", accompanied by a video incorporating footage from Olympia. [9] During the filming of Olympia, Riefenstahl was funded by the state to create her own production company in her own name, Riefenstahl-Film GmbH, which was uninvolved with her most influential works. Up to 90% off Textbooks at Amazon Canada. [16] She became inspired to go into movie making, and began visiting the cinema to see films and also attended film shows. [45] Afterwards, she left Poland and chose not to make any more Nazi-related films. [73] When filming Impressionen unter Wasser, Riefenstahl lied about her age in order to be certified for scuba diving. Leni Riefenstahl werd geboren in Wedding, een in Berlijn destijds als 'misdadigers- en arbeiderskolonie' bekend staand stadsdeel, als dochter van een loodgieter. Her most famous work was Triumph of the Will, a propaganda film showing a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934. Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, actress, producer, and photographer who is best known for her documentaries of the 1930s dramatizing the power and pageantry of the Nazi movement. Riefenstahl became a favourite of German dictator Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, making films for his fascist regime. The men remain ants in a vast enterprise. [82], Charles Moore of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "She was perhaps the most talented female cinema director of the 20th century; her celebration of Nazi Germany in film ensured that she was certainly the most infamous". Between 1925 and 1929, she starred in five successful motion pictures. [79], When traveling to Hollywood, Riefenstahl was criticized by the Anti-Nazi League very harshly when wanting to showcase her film Olympia soon after its release. [64], Writer Richard Corliss wrote in Time that he was "impressed by Riefenstahl's standing as a total auteur: producer, writer, director, editor and, in the fiction films, actress. [34] She was one of the first filmmakers to use tracking shots in a documentary,[35] placing a camera on rails to follow the athletes' movement. Riefenstahl's cinematic framing of the flags encapsulated its iconography.

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