The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
4.1 of 5 from 52 ratings
3h 8min
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- Synopsis:
A spellbinding account of the woman best known as Hitler's moviemaker and recently hailed by The New York Times as "one of the greatest woman filmmakers ever". In this remarkable documentary, Leni Riefenstahl addresses her past for the first time on camera. While she never actually joined the Nazi Party, as the creator of the single most effective propaganda film ever made, Triumph Of The Will, Riefenstahl has spent much of her life trying to live down her association with the Third Reich. Her personal relationship with Hitler is still in question. Feisty and charismatic at 91, Riefenstahl revisits the landmarks of her turbulent life - from her beginnings as a dare-devil actress in German "mountain films" to her direction of such stunning narratives as 'The Blue Light' (1932) and 'Tiefland' (1940's, released in 1954), to her infamous, brilliant documentaries 'Triumph of the Will' (1935) and 'Olympia' (1938) to her anthropological photographs of the now extinct Nuba tribes of Africa. The film brings out the story of Riefenstahl right up to her current passion - scuba diving and shooting films of exotic aquatic life. Altogether, a riveting story that leaves the viewer in total awe of its controversial subject. - Actors:
- Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Frentz, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Horst Kettner, Marlene Dietrich, Arnold Fanck, John Herbert Higgins, Saburo Ito, Reizô Koike, Guzzi Lantschner, Ralph Metcalfe, Ray Müller, Jesse Owens, Ernst Röhm, Fritz Schilgen, Luis Trenker
- Directors:
- Ray Muller
- Producers:
- Jacques de Clercq, Dimitri de Clercq, Waldemar Januszczak, Hans Peter Kochenrath, Hans-Jürgen Panitz
- Writers:
- Ray Müller
- Aka:
- Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl / The Power of the Image: Leni Riefenstahl
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest, Sports & Sport Films
- Countries:
- Germany
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Cinema Paradiso Does Have This - The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl review by JJ
It;s a great documentary. Really fascinating, and the way to see it through Cinema Paradiso is to rent the Blu-ray of The Holy Mountain which includes the documentary as an extra on the disc. Hope that is helpful. The Holy Mountain is well worth seeing too, by the way.
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