German filmmaker Andres Veiel reexamines the figure of the director of ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘Olympia’ through her ...

German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl directed and produced the film "Triumph of the Will," funded directly by Adolf Hitler.

Curiously, for a woman who directed a movie called Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl seemed to lose control over her own person when she first met Adolf Hitler. "I had hot sweats," the German ...

The Nazi film propagandist Leni Riefenstahl remained a true ... of Polish Jews in the town of Końskie, where Riefenstahl was filming Hitler’s Polish invasion. The town was home to around ...

But her filmmaking is inseparable from Hitler and the Nazi regime. How should we evaluate her work? Leni Riefenstahl was a pioneering filmmaker and the most significant propagandist of National ...

Leni Riefenstahl filmed the 1934 rally for her propaganda film Triumph of the Will. The most vivid event was an outdoor evening rally of party leaders. In 1935 Hitler's architect Albert Speer ...

Even though Nazi ideology relegated women to the home, some women gained great influence and power during the Third Reich: Leni Riefenstahl, “Hitler’s filmmaker,” Magda Goebbels, wife of the Minister ...

Actor Gabrielle Rose and director Donna Spencer grapple with a staged story about Hitler’s favourite filmmaker The stunning, not-so-wonderful saga of Leni Riefenstahl serves as a cautionary tale ...