Leni Riefenstahl

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1902-08-22

Deathday 2003-09-08 (101 years old)

Place of Birth Berlin, Germany

Also Known As 레니 리펜슈탈

Leni Riefenstahl

Biography

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party. Riefenstahl's prominence in the Third Reich along with her personal friendship with Adolf Hitler thwarted her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arrested but released without any charges. Triumph of the Will gave Riefenstahl instant and lasting international fame, as well as infamy. Although she directed only eight films, just two of which received significant coverage outside of Germany, Riefenstahl was widely known all her life. The propaganda value of her films made during the 1930s repels most modern commentators but many film histories cite the aesthetics as outstanding. The Economist wrote that Triumph of the Will "sealed her reputation as the greatest female filmmaker of the 20th century". In the 1970s Riefenstahl published her still photography of the Nuba tribes in Sudan in several books such as The Last of the Nuba. She was active up until her death and also published marine life stills and released the marine-based film Impressionen unter Wasser in 2002. After her death, the Associated Press described Riefenstahl as an "acclaimed pioneer of film and photographic techniques". Der Tagesspiegel newspaper in Berlin noted, "Leni Riefenstahl conquered new ground in the cinema". The BBC said her documentaries "were hailed as groundbreaking film-making, pioneering techniques involving cranes, tracking rails, and many cameras working at the same time". Description above from the Wikipedia article Leni Riefenstahl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2024
Riefenstahl

as Self (archive footage)

2020
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Hitler's Hollywood

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2015
LENI

as Self (archive footage)

2000
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co

as Self (archive footage)

1997
1978
Lebensläufe

as Self

1977
Games of the XXI Olympiad

as Self - Spectator

1976
1965
aspekte

as Self

1954
Lowlands

as Martha

1938
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

as Nude Dancer - Prologue (uncredited)

1933
S.O.S. Iceberg

as Ellen Lawrence

1933
S.O.S. Iceberg

as Hella Lorenz

1932
1931
1930
Storm Over Mont Blanc

as Hella Armstrong

1929
1927
1926

Director

2002
1954
Lowlands

as Director

1935
1935
Day of Freedom

as Director

1933
1932
The Blue Light

as Director

Producer

1954
Lowlands

as Producer

1935
Day of Freedom

as Producer

1935
1932
The Blue Light

as Producer