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...with Leni, the central figure in Böll's newest novel. She has survived the war, but not without cost. Her husband and brother were killed. Her father's war-profits fortune has been lost...
...middle age, Leni remains a sensual and generous woman, but she no longer understands the world. In fact, Böll suggests, it is doubtful if she ever...
During the war, Leni was cheerful and passively innocent, never bothering to distinguish between Jews and non-Jews. Now she has trouble fathoming why people are angry at her. Leni's lack of understanding is revealed to the reader at third hand by a character called Au., an abbreviation for Böll's imaginary "Author." He is a priggish, humorless drudge who is determined to assemble the life of his living subject through interviews with people who knew...
ELIOT HOUSE DINING ROOM: King Kong and Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Oct. 27 and 28, Kong 8, Blondes 10, $1. HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH: Ghosts Before Breakfast by Hans Richter; Diving Sequence from Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl; Adebar by Peter Kubelka; A Movie by Bruce Conner: To Parallel by Bruce Beillie: Neurology by Standish Lawder; and Moon 1969 by Scott Bartlett...
...never Hitler's mistress-though I was dazzled by him, like millions of other Germans. These are nothing but lies," insists Leni Riefenstahl, with thinning patience. As one of Adolf Hitler's favorite actresses and directors, Leni got her biggest break when the Führer told her to make a movie of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The film that resulted was a propaganda classic, but her career as a movie producer in the Third Reich eventually led to two denazification trials (she was cleared). Now London's Sunday Times has hired...