Riefenstahl

[ree-fuhn-shtahl]

noun

1. Leni 1902–2003, German film director.

Riefenstahl

/ ˈriːfənʃtaːl /

noun

1. Leni (ˈleːni). 1902–2003, German photographer and film director, best known for her Nazi propaganda films, such as Triumph of the Will (1934)

Example Sentences

After the Nazis were defeated, “Triumph of the Will” director Leni Riefenstahl, stripped of her Third Reich protections but saved from prison by a sympathetic tribunal, realized she’d need to become her greatest propaganda subject yet: selling the world that she was merely a persecuted naif taking a commission — someone who cared only about art, not politics.

From Los Angeles Times

It answers Riefenstahl’s carefully chosen narrative, a fable of disillusioned purity, with an equally forensic counternarrative exposing her childlike narcissism about the impact of her talent.

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There is also remarkable unused footage from Ray Müller’s queasily accommodating 1993 profile “The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.”

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Nearing 90, Riefenstahl is seen shouting down Müller over inconvenient details about her friendship with Goebbels.

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How Riefenstahl agrees with him is pointedly chilling.

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