A Memoir
A Film, Biography, History book. cinema fans
One of the 20th century's most remarkable & controversial women, Leni Riefenstahl was an artist of the 1st order. Dancer, actor & photographer, she is best known as the director of Triumph of the Will, a film of a Nazi Party rally & Olympia, the classic account of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's for these works of cinematic propaganda that Riefenstahl is revered & reviled. In this autobiography, she discusses her motivations, her history, her important friendships &, most of all, her art. Along with insights into directing & camera work, Riefenstahl offers an emotional, powerful story of a woman who refuses to be defined by any terms other than her own.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 681 pages
- ISBN: 9780312119263 / 312119267
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cinema fans I found it hard to get a handle on this book, Leni presents herself as a woman with a very direct personality and who is strong and almost obsessively driven to succeed in a world were women where still treated as lesser citizens. Any goal she set for herself she achieved, all men desired her, all women were jealous of her (which she... The book was a very interesting read beginning to end. Some of her early life was a mystery to me, so I was able to understand her challenges, as well as to understand her mentors and the people she admired. I was disappointed with her lack of responsibility for the work she did during WWII. The propaganda movies were mostly tasteless...
