Word: leni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leni Riefenstahl walked up to Luis Trenker, star of German mountain movies, and said, "I'm going to be in your next picture." She was a dancer, not an actress -- and not a mountain climber, as the amused star pointed out. "I can do it if I make up my mind to," she asserted. As soon as Trenker's director, Arnold Fanck, saw her photo, he wrote a starring role for her in his next film...
...three parts, and out of that the press wove a legend." Wove a horror story. A half-century after shooting her last feature, Riefenstahl is still the world's most controversial director; her name summons the conflicts of defiant artistry and compromised morality. Thus the U.S. publication of Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir (St. Martin's Press; $35) and the U.S. premiere of Ray Muller's documentary The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (at the New York Film Festival) are vital artistic events...