A Portrait Of Leni Riefenstahl
Book description
Leni Riefenstahl will always be remembered for her brilliant film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin - still rated as one of the best documentaries ever made. Before that she was acclaimed for her roles in silent feature films, when German cinema was in its artistic heyday in the…
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Why read it?
1 author picked A Portrait Of Leni Riefenstahl as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It's a biography about Hitler's mistress - only she wasn't. She was an astonishingly talented and famous athlete, and actress before she invented a form of documentary filmmaking that has been copied ever after. As a trained journalist myself, I appreciate her obsessive attention to tone and small details that put viewers "there" and her empathy. History and historical biographies always interest me, and in this case another woman ignored and deprecated for her brilliance never let anyone else define who she was, and outlived her detractors.