Leni Riefenstahl, the Reich's filmmaker

AUG 17 2024

A German-language profile of Riefenstahl, who filmed the Nuremberg rallies and the 1936 Olympics and spent the rest of her life denying that she had served the regime. Her contribution was aesthetic rather than argumentative: she filmed a political party as a monumental spectacle and its leader as a figure descending from the sky. The programme sets her own account against the record.