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    Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer...
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    Triumph of the Will (category Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
    Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive...
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  • Olympia (1938 film) (category Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
    is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium...
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  • Leni Riefenstahl's Memoiren is the 1987 autobiography of German film director Leni Riefenstahl. The book received a 1993 American release and coincided...
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  • Tiefland (film) (category Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
    drama film directed, produced, co-written, edited by and starring Leni Riefenstahl, and based on the 1903 eponymous opera composed by Eugen d'Albert to...
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  • of Leni Riefenstahl (German: Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl) is a 1993 German documentary film about the life of German film director Leni Riefenstahl...
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    filming them for a national and international audience. Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl produced some of her best known work including Triumph of the Will...
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  • moving the flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue. Leni Riefenstahl filmed the relay for the award-winning but controversial 1938 film...
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  • The Blue Light (1932 film) (category Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
    black-and-white 1932 film directed by Leni Riefenstahl and written by Béla Balázs with uncredited scripting by Carl Mayer. In Riefenstahl's film version, the witch...
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    daughter of the American ambassador. According to Hanfstaengl, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl tried to begin a relationship with Hitler early on, but he turned her...
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  • The Last of the Nuba (category Books by Leni Riefenstahl)
    of the Nuba is the English-language title of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's 1973 Die Nuba, a book of photographs, published a year later in the...
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  • televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries. Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games...
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    Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns were writing a script for a biopic about Leni Riefenstahl, but ultimately chose to make Contagion after weighing the commercial...
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  • Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht (category Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
    of Freedom: Our Armed Forces) is the third documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl, following Der Sieg des Glaubens and Triumph des Willens. Her third...
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    by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker and Frida Richard. It was the future filmmaker Riefenstahl's first screen appearance as an...
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  • The Victory of Faith (category Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
    Victory of the Faith) is the first Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred...
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  • Impressionen unter Wasser (category Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
    directed by Leni Riefenstahl. After the premiere of her film Tiefland in 1954, for decades it was generally thought this would be Riefenstahl's last film...
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  • pre-Code drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Rocque, and Ernst Udet. The film...
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  • Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa (Leni Riefenstahl: Ihr Traum von Afrika) is a 2003 documentary-film by Ray Müller. The film follows Leni Riefenstahl's...
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    Performance by an Actress for her role as Nazi-era German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in Jordan Harrison's Amazons and Their Men. She also acted in several...
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  • mountain film co-directed by Arnold Fanck and G. W. Pabst and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Petersen, and World War I pilot Ernst Udet. Written...
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    films, an offer Morris refused. German filmmaker and documentarian Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003) claimed in her memoirs that during and after the 1936 Olympics...
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  • Vanishing Africa (category Books by Leni Riefenstahl)
    of the 1982 English-language translation of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's Mein Afrika, a photographic book published in the same year in Germany...
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    UFA, but was not a commercial or critical success. Fanck's protégé Leni Riefenstahl later directed the much more successful Olympia portraying the 1936...
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  • The People of Kau (category Books by Leni Riefenstahl)
    of the 1976 English-language translation of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's Die Nuba von Kau, an illustrated book, published in the same year...
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  • with the title The Mountaineers. After seeing Mountain of Destiny, Leni Riefenstahl, then a dancer, decided she wanted to start appearing in films. She...
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    for having given Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl a tour of his studio a month after Kristallnacht. Riefenstahl's invitation was solicited to Disney...
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    Goebbels, or by excelling in particular fields, such as filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl or aviator Hanna Reitsch. Many restrictions on women were lifted once...
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  • equally a propaganda masterpiece and equally a hoax. Mr. Stone and Leni Riefenstahl have another genetic linkage: neither of them carried a disclaimer...
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  • Race (2016 film) (category Cultural depictions of Leni Riefenstahl)
    arrangement Brundage entered with the Nazis before the games. Film director Leni Riefenstahl records Owens' victories despite Goebbels' orders; she asks Owens to...
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