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Crew: Director
Synopsis: This volume of Short -- the DVD-format magazine that collects award-winning short films from around the world -- features six outstanding movies that you're not likely to see at your local multiplex. The titles include True, a comedy that inspired the popular Budweiser "whassup?" Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta, Detlev Buck
Synopsis: Utilizing computer-generated effects and creative splicing to place Germany's most famous living directors in a fantasy movie house, filmmaker Edgar Reitz takes an innovative approach toward exploring the history of German cinema. In this magical theater, directors such as Leni Riefenstahl, Detlev Buck Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl
Synopsis: In the 1930s, Leni Riefenstahl was arguably the most important and accomplished female filmmaker of her generation; however, since her primary sponsor was Adolf Hitler, and her best-known work was a hagiographic documentary on the 1934 Nazi Party congress entitled Triumph of the Will, a long and Read More
Synopsis: A combination of visual art and electronic music are offered. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Examine the incredible life of the woman who made films for Hitler including Triumph of the Will. Also explore her own early career as an actress. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Franz Eichberger, Bernhard Minetti, Maria Koppenhofer, Luise Rainer
Synopsis: After spending the 1930s as the Third Reich's principal cinematic chronicler, Leni Riefenstahl returned to fictional films with Tiefland. According to Riefenstahl, she had refused to make any more propaganda pictures--"for good reasons," she explained enigmatically--choosing instead to direct a Read More
Crew: Director, Editor, Producer
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Beni Fuehrer, Max Holzboer, Mathias Wiemann, Franz Maldacea
Synopsis: Having proven her mettle with her still-astonishing propaganda epic Triumph of the Will, German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl furthered her reputation with the two-part Olympia, an all-inclusive filmed record of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In its original 220-minute form, the film was designed as a Read More
Synopsis: Originally Tag Der Freheit, Days of Freedom, filmed during the 1935 Nuremberg rally, is Leni Reifenstahl's smaller-scale follow-up to her pro-Nazi paean Triumph of the Will. The focus here is on the German army, where Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, and Hermann Goering oversee an endless parade of Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Synopsis: Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The Read More
Crew: Director, Editor
Synopsis: Sieg des Glaubens is the first documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl, who was hired despite opposition from the Nazi officials that resented employing a woman -- and a non-Party member too. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from August 30 to Read More
Crew: Cinematographer
Actors: Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland
Synopsis: In the same year that she directed Victory of the Faith (1933), her first of several famous cinematic projects for the Nazi Party, German actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl played a supporting role in this epic adventure, co-written and co-directed by her frequent "mountain film" collaborator Dr. Arnold Fanck Read More
Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Synopsis: The Blue Light (Das Blaue Licht) is widely regarded as the best of the German "mountain" films of the early 1930s. Leni Riefenstahl both directed and starred in this film, playing a free-spirited gamine who dares to climb a precipitous mountain peak. Because she is the only member of her community Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Guzzi Lantschner, Walter Riml
Synopsis: Der Weisse Rausch (aka The Ski Chase and The White Ecstasy) was directed by Dr. Arnold Franck, the man who put the German "mountain film" genre on the map. The story concerns a group of young and healthy vacationers who meet annually at a Tyrolean skiing resort. Each year, hero Hanns Schneider Read More
Synopsis: Footage of Leni Riefenstahl from two of the "mountain films" of Arnold Fanck: Der Heilige Berg (1926) and Der Weiss Rausch (1931). ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet, Mathias Wiemann, Friedrich Kayssler
Synopsis: This romantic "mountain film" takes place on Mont Blanc, where the meteorologist Hannes (Sepp Rist) resides in an isolated observatory. Hella Armstrong (Leni Riefenstahl), who lives in the valley below with her astronomer father (Friedrich Kayssler), sees Hannes's observatory while flying over it Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen, Gustav Diessl, Mitzi Gotzel, Christian Klucker
Synopsis: After his wife falls to her death in a glacier crevasse, Dr. Johannes Krafft (Gustav Diessl) wanders alone through the Bernina Alps and becomes known as the legendary "Spirit of the Mountain." He encounters Maria Majoni (Leni Riefenstahl) and Hans Brandt (Ernst Petersen) in a mountain shelter, and Read More
Actors: Alfons Fryland, Willi Hubert, Fritz Spira, Erna Morena, Leni Riefenstahl
Synopsis: This dramatic account of the Austrian royal family at the turn of the 20th century focuses on Crown Prince Rudolf (Alfons Fryland) and his cousin Franz Ferdinand (Willi Hubert), the heirs to the emperor, Francis Joseph I (Fritz Spira), and his wife Sissi (Erna Morena). Rudolf acquiesces to an Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Frida Richard
Synopsis: Originally titled Der Heilige Berg, Peaks of Destiny is another of the legendary and very well-received "mountain films" of German director/geologist Dr. Arnold Fanck. It also represented the screen debut of Fanck's most celebrated protegee, future director Leni Riefenstahl. The actress is cast as Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Hans Schneeberger, Paul Graetz
Synopsis: Writer/director Arnold Fanck reteamed Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker, the stars of his previous hit Der Heilige Berg, for this light-hearted "mountain film," which has the sub-title "an improbable but happy story." The goatherd Gita (Riefenstahl) is a skilled mountaineer who lives in a small Read More
Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen
Synopsis: Leni Riefenstahl made her film debut in this "mountain film" by writer/director Arnold Fanck, and went on to appear in five more under his direction. In Der Heilige Berg she plays the professional dancer Diotima who finds herself the apex of a love triangle when she is pursued by two mountain Read More
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