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The most influential filmmaker of the Third Reich and last great surviving image maker of the Nazis, Leni Riefenstahl is a legend with many faces, both admired and loathed. Rather than being content with updating old prejudices, this documentary approaches the most famous female film director in the world without preconceptions and attempts to decontruct her myth and look at it afresh. Was she a feminist pioneer or a woman of evil? Interviews with Leni Riefenstahl are subtitled in English.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
306399
Languages
English
German
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Production and direction
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Women - Interviews
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Women in the motion picture industry
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Women in war
Documentary → Documentary films - Germany
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)