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.

References

• The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, documentary film directed by Ray Müller (1994)
• ' by Glenn B. Infield (Crowell, 1976, ISBN 0690011679)
• ' by Rainer Rother, translated by Martin H. Bott (Continuum International Publishing Group reprint edition, 2003, ISBN 0826470238)
• The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by David B. Hinton (Scarecrow Press 3rd edition, 2000, ISBN 1578860091)
• ' by Angelika Taschen (Taschen, 2000, ISBN 3822862169)