Leni Riefenstahl
Birthday
1902/08/22
Day of death
2003/09/08 (101 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also know as
레니 리펜슈탈
Biography
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party. Riefenstahl's prominence in the Third Reich along with her personal friendship with Adolf Hitler thwarted her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arre...Read more
Acting
(1938) Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
as Nude Dancer - Prologue (uncredited)
(2024) Riefenstahl
as Self (archive footage)
(1954) Lowlands
as Martha
(2017) Hitler's Hollywood
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(1929) The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as Maria Maioni
(1993) The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
as Herself
(1932) The Blue Light
as Junta
(1926) The Holy Mountain
as Diotima
(1933) S.O.S. Iceberg
as Hella Lorenz
(1995) The Night of the Filmmakers
as Self
(1927) The Great Leap
as Gita
(1930) Storm Over Mont Blanc
as Hella Armstrong
(2002) Underwater Impressions
as ---
(1931) White Ecstasy
as Leni
(1925) Ways to Strength and Beauty
as ---
(2003) Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
as ---
(1933) S.O.S. Iceberg
as Ellen Lawrence
(2016) Les Champions d'Hitler
as Self
(2015) LENI
as Self (archive footage)
(2002) From Stag Beetle to Swastika
as ---
(1977) Games of the XXI Olympiad
as Self - Spectator
(1997) Birth of a Nation
as Self
(2002) The Immoderation of Me - Sandra Maischberger meets Leni Riefenstahl
as Self
(2000) Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
as Self (archive footage)
(1928) Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg
as Maria Vetsera
(1976) Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
as Self - Interviewee
(1972) Memories of a Summer in Berlin
as herself
(2005) Speer und er: Nachspiel - Die Täuschung
as Herself
(1982) Time of Darkness and Silence
as Self
(2020) Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
as Self (archive footage)
(1978) Lebensläufe
as Self
(1976) Das ist Ihr Leben
as Self
(1973) Je später der Abend
as Self
(1965) aspekte
as Self