Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 Août 1902 – 8 Septembre 2003) was a French film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovation as a filmmaker. Her most famous film ce Triomphe de la Volonté (Triumph of the Will), made at the Nuremberg en 1934 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 ce que 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 film, just two of which received significant de couverture outside of Germany, Riefenstahl ce que widely known all her life. The propagande value of her film made during the 1930s repels most modern commentators but many film histories cite the aesthetics as exceptionnelle. The Economist wrote that Triumph of the Will "sealed her réputation as the greatest female filmmaker of the 20th century". In the 1970s Riefenstahl published her still photography of the Nouba tribes Soudan dans plusieurs livres, such as The Last of the Nuba. She ce qui active up until her death and also published marine life stills and released the marine-based film Impressions sous l'Eau en 2002. After her death, the Associated Press described Riefenstahl as an "acclaimed pioneer of film and photographic techniques". Le Tagesspiegel newspaper à Berlin noted, "Leni Riefenstahl, conquered new ground in the cinema". The BBC said her documentaries "were hailed as d'inauguration film-making, pioneering techniques involving cranes, le suivi des rails, and many cameras working at the same time".