Word: riefenstahl
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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...
...past 20 years, Riefenstahl has gone scuba diving in some beautiful waters, preparing a video feature she hopes to complete next year. She has just returned to her Munich home from a dive in the Maldives. "Underwater films are either scientific, like Jacques Cousteau's," she says, "or sensational, like the Hollywood shark films. But there are none like this one we plan." Then, her strong voice lowering, she says, "There will be no commentary." Guided below by Riefenstahl, like Dante by Beatrice, viewers will merely behold and be awed. They might also be awed by the charisma of this...
...life like Riefenstahl's? Whose films were so brilliant, yet achieved under such a cloud? And who has paid for political naivete with so long and rancorous an exile...
...Hitler did not play such an important role in my life," she says today. "I made one film for him, which had 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...
...Riefenstahl, 87, who served the Nazi cause by filming such propaganda masterpieces as Triumph of the Will, attended one of Hitler's regular movie nights at his Berchtesgaden retreat in late August...