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Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

Director · Born 1902-08-22 · Berlin, Germany

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Biography

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party. Riefenstahl's prominence in the Third Reich along with her personal friendship with Adolf Hitler thwarted her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arrested but released without any charges. Triumph of the Will gave Riefenstahl instant and lasting international fame, as well as infamy. Although she directed only eight films, just two of which received significant coverage outside of Germany, Riefenstahl was widely known all her life. The propaganda value of her films made during the 1930s repels most modern commentators but many film histories cite the aesthetics as outstanding. The Economist wrote that Triumph of the Will "sealed her reputation as the greatest female filmmaker of the 20th century". In the 1970s Riefenstahl published her still photography of the Nuba tribes in Sudan in several books such as The Last of the Nuba. She was a…

Directed

  1. Triumph of the Will (1935) — Director
  2. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) — Director
  3. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) — Director
  4. The Blue Light (1932) — Director
  5. Day of Freedom (1935) — Director
  6. The Victory of Faith (1933) — Director
  7. Lowlands (1954) — Director
  8. Underwater Impressions (2002) — Director
  9. Longing For Innocence (2023) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) — Nude Dancer - Prologue (uncredited)
  2. Riefenstahl (2024) — Self (archive footage)
  3. The Holy Mountain (1926) — Diotima
  4. The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) — Herself
  5. The Blue Light (1932) — Junta
  6. Hitler's Hollywood (2017) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  7. The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) — Maria Maioni
  8. The Goebbels Experiment (2005) — Self (archival footage)
  9. Lowlands (1954) — Martha
  10. S.O.S. Iceberg (1933) — Hella Lorenz
  11. Storm Over Mont Blanc (1930) — Hella Armstrong
  12. The Great Leap (1927) — Gita
  13. Underwater Impressions (2002)
  14. S.O.S. Iceberg (1933) — Ellen Lawrence
  15. Games of the XXI Olympiad (1977) — Self - Spectator
  16. The White Ecstasy (1931) — Leni
  17. Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
  18. The Night of the Filmmakers (1995) — Self
  19. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
  20. Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth (2020) — Self (archive footage)
  21. Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019) — Self (archive footage)
  22. Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa (2003) — Self
  23. aspekte (1965) — Self
  24. From Stag Beetle to Swastika (2002)
  25. The Immoderation of Me - Sandra Maischberger meets Leni Riefenstahl (2002) — Self
  26. Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg (1928) — Maria Vetsera
  27. Memories of a Summer in Berlin (1972) — herself
  28. Speer und er: Nachspiel - Die Täuschung (2005) — Herself
  29. Time of Darkness and Silence (1982) — Self
  30. Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief (2008) — Self (archive footage)
  31. The Run (2016)
  32. Biographies (1978) — Self
  33. Je später der Abend (1973) — Self
  34. Les Champions d'Hitler (2016) — Self
  35. LENI (2015) — Self (archive footage)
  36. Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture (1976) — Self - Interviewee
  37. FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts (2025) — Self (archive footage)
  38. Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und Hollywood (2018) — Self (archive footage)
  39. City of Toys (2024) — Self (archive footage)
  40. In the Service of the Regime. Leni Riefenstahl (2009) — Self (archive footage)