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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 theā¦
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It's a biography about Hitler's mistress - only she wasn't. Leni Riefenstahl was an astonishingly talented person, well-known across Germany and other parts of the world as a famous athlete, dancer, and actress when Hitler asked her to document the Olympics. She invented a form of documentary that has been emulated ever since. Blacklisted and harassed for decades because of this work, she lived and worked in the US until she was 91. (You can even see online a short film she made at 90! )
The book is written in a style that consciously pays homage to Riefenstahlās signatureā¦
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