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In movies like 'Triumph of the Will' and 'Olympia,' Leni Riefenstahl all but invented the fascist aesthetic. A new documentary indicates that she knew what she was doing.

NEW YORK — I wish this movie came out 50 years ago. Or at least when Leni Riefenstahl, the incredibly gifted film director and close associate of the Nazi party, was alive and on her decades-long “I ...

To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps? In the documentary “Riefenstahl,” which debuted at the 2024 Venice Film ...

This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...

Filmmaker and actor Leni Riefenstahl has been the subject of a slew of documentaries over the years, many attempting to unravel the truth about her relationship with the Nazi Party. Was the director ...

Her films were taught for decades in U.S. film schools for their pictographic excellence, her images bold and dramatic. The context in which they were made, however, was so difficult to justify that ...

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