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 indifferent to or willfully ignorant of Nazi ideology but deeply fascinated by the master-race aesthetic. After the Second World 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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