Word: hitleritis
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...beautiful enough to play me,'" Verhoeven informs TIME. She suggested a different, icier blond: "Leni's ultimate idea of herself is Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct" (one of Verhoeven's films). He adds that a contract Riefenstahl signed with the producer stipulates "that any affair between her and Hitler or her and Goebbels would be prohibited onscreen." That way, at least the film would have a shot at a PG-13 rating...
...UNDER INVESTIGATION. LENI RIEFENSTAHL, 100, Adolf Hitler's favorite filmmaker and cinematic chronicler of Nazi Germany who later turned to underwater photography; for Holocaust denial; in Frankfurt. Riefenstahl, who celebrated her centennial last week, is being sued by a Gypsy organization for dismissing allegations that Gypsy slave laborers used as extras in her 1943 film Tiefland were later returned to concentration camps...
German director LENI RIEFENSTAHL next week celebrates her 100th birthday with the release of a new film about her underwater photography. In 1936, after she was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to make a film of the Winter Olympics, she was a TIME cover subject...
...Adolf Hitler, who had long admired her work on the screen. He...promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress in which she directed 800,000 men. When Herr Hitler's crony, Air Minister Goring, married Cinemactress Riefenstahl's crony, Actress Emmy Sonnemann, last year, Hitler was best man. That Realmleader Hitler, a confirmed celibate, has any such intentions concerning Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl no one suspects for a moment, but that he holds her in high esteem, entertains romantic admiration for her achievements and her character...
...clambered up and down mountains) and enjoyed an extended masterclass with Fanck. In 1932, Riefenstahl co-wrote, co-directed, co-produced and starred in The Blue Light. She had no idea, of course, that by turning the camera on herself, she'd catch the eye of Adolf Hitler...