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Consider, then the life-history of Leni Pfeiffer, who was in her early twenties during the war years and whose experiences of the late 1930s and 40s are bound up--she is a German citizen--with the progress of the Third Reich. There are plenty of witnesses to Leni's development, but Heinrich Boll would certainly have trusted none of them with the narration of Group Portrait With Lady, his book about Leni. The man he does empower, as persona, to find the facts about Leni is a late-middle-aged man who identifies himself as the Author...
...admittedly, a sentimental man whose confessed fondness for Leni fuels his excavation of her past and who confesses, in a defensive way late in the narrative, that he is concerned with what Virgil called Lacrymae rerum, or the quantity of suffering/tears that is endemic to life. That is about as generalized as the Au. ever gets about his pursuit. The rest of the time he simply measures and records, indefatigably, such essentials as the number of air-raids over Germany in 1944 during which Leni found time to have intercourse with a secret Russian lover, and the number of seconds...
...does not stop with interviews and superficial calculations concerning Leni's whereabouts and occupation. He must quantify much more metaphysical occurences, and for this purpose develops a code near the start of his narrative. Tears, Weeping, Laughing, Beatitude, Pain and Suffering are all human intangibles that he knows he must reckon into his Factual account if he would emerge with a judgement. And so T., W., L., B., P., and S. are all defined briefly but methodically, and suubsequently designated by their initials, as useful coordinates for plotting the lacrymae rerum of any one of the clump of characters...
Triumph of the Will. Hitler's official filmmaker Leni Reifenstahl made this of the 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally, before she made the '36 Olympic films. The Welles is billing it as "the movie that made Adolph Hitler a star!" Worth seeing, but not recommended if you were among the L.Z. crowd at the Garden Monday night...
Bozer said the film society was trying to get a print of Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will," a pro-Nazi German film released...