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Leni Riefenstahl was nothing if not ambitious. An attractive actress,
she studied the techniques of filmmaking and in 1931 made her
first film, The Blue Light, which she produced, directed, cowrote,
edited, starred in, and released through her own production company.
Hitler favored her and in 1934 asked her to film the Nazi Nuremberg
Party Convention. Leni
Riefenstahl employed an astonishing 30 cameras to make Triumph
of the Will, an extraordinary propaganda film. She topped that
two years later with The Olympiad, a dazzling documentary about
the Berlin Olympic Games. Her huge talent was coupled with deepening
Nazi collaboration, and after World War II she spent years in
American and French prisons. Though cleared of charges in 1952,
Riefenstahl
never really revived her career.
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