Leni
Riefenstahl
1902-2003
Leni Riefenstahl was a cinematic genius and brilliant documentary film
maker. Unfortunately, she used her talents as a propagandist for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
Party. She seems to have been willfully ignorant or indifferent to
Nazi ideology but deeply fascinated by the master-race aesthetic. After the
war she was briefly jailed and internationally ostracized, but she was
so gosh-darn talented that the film world couldn't hold its grudge
forever.
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