Leni Riefenstahl

Berta Helene Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (August 22, 1902 - September 8, 2003) was a German actress, director and filmmaker widely noted for her aesthetics and advances in film technique. Her most famous works are documentary propaganda films for the German Nazi Party. Rejected by the film industry after World War II, she later became a photographer.

External links

• Her propaganda marches on, An analysis of Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will.
• Homepage of Leni Riefenstahl
• www.riefenstahl.org - a fanpage, claims the "most accurate and detailed Leni Riefenstahl filmography ... available anywhere."
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• Collection of Internet Resources: Leni Riefenstahl
• Women's History collection
• "Leni Riefenstahl: propagandist for the Third Reich by Stefan Steinberg, on World Socialist Web Site published by the Trotskyist International Committee of the Fourth International.
• "Fascinating Fascism", a critical 1974 essay by Susan Sontag (out of Under the Sign of Saturn)
• ""Wherever you may run, you cannot escape him": Leni Riefenstahl's Self-Reflection and Romantic Transcendence of Nazism in Tiefland", analysis of the film and its sociopolitics by Robert von Dassanowsky.