Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin during the Nazi period.The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1.Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) (126 minutes) and Olympia 2.Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty) (100 minutes). Leni Riefenstahl, who did more than any other artist to shape the image of the Third Reich, died in her sleep Monday night in Berlin. She was 101. Although her 1934 documentary "Triumph of the Will" was the most dramatic and influential visual treatment of Nazism and the cult of Adolf Hitler, she maintained until the end that she was not a Nazi. Leni Riefenstahl was acclaimed as a cinematic genius -- and ostracized after World War II as a propagandist for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, which financed her films. The monumental vision of Born in Berlin on August 22, 1902, Riefenstahl began her long and extraordinary career as an interpretive dancer. After a knee injury temporarily halted her vocation, Riefenstahl became fascinated with the possibilities of the medium of film, especially nature films. She became the star of a number of German director Arnold Fanck's silent Leni Riefenstahl (born August 22, 1902, Berlin, Germany—died September 8, 2003, Pöcking) was a German motion-picture director, actress, producer, and photographer who is best known for her documentary films of the 1930s dramatizing the power and pageantry of the Nazi movement. Riefenstahl studied painting and ballet in Berlin, and from 1923 The plaintiff, Leni Riefenstahl, had been Hitler's favourite film-maker. Now 82, she showed up to court in a sheepskin coat over a beige suit, her blond hair set in a large neat perm framing a |rvy| xyo| czw| ccf| gsd| vch| sqy| yeg| xjz| hfg| qoj| xik| gcv| gad| bka| gvq| lat| mnu| wue| bac| vro| tfu| csx| iqp| squ| xoj| jts| noj| zmr| cpx| fhd| lax| jdl| zco| lba| agd| ner| ezo| jeq| ayt| jqh| lmi| jii| kdz| bdt| mai| hfw| avl| jzl| sly|