Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl was born on Aug 22, 1902 in Germany. Leni Riefenstahl's big-screen debut came with The Great Leap directed by Arnold Fanck in 1927. Leni Riefenstahl is known for Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations directed by Leni Riefenstahl, David Albritton stars as Self - High Jump, USA and Arvo Askola as Self - 10000 Metres, FIN. Leni Riefenstahl has got 4 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Leni Riefenstahl achieved is Telluride Film Festival, US. The upcoming new movie Leni Riefenstahl plays is Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty which will be released on Mar 29, 1940.

Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With Fanck as her mentor, Riefenstahl began directing films.Her penchant for artistic work earned her acclaim and awards for her films across Europe. It was her work on Le triomphe de la volonté (1935), a documentary commissioned by the Nazi government about Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, that would come back to haunt her after the atrocities of World War II. Despite her protests to the contrary, Riefenstahl was considered an intricate part of the Third Reich's propaganda machine. Condemned by the international community, she did not make another movie for over 50 years.