Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as "Hitler's
filmmaker," made some of the greatest and most innovative
documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of
Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the
truths and lies behind Riefenstahl's lifelong self-vindication
as an apolitical artist who claimed to know nothing of the
Holocaust and denied her complicity with the criminal regime she
both used and sanctified. A riveting and illuminating biography of
one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the
twentieth century.
An unsparing biography of the controversial filmmaker draws on
interviews with colleagues and friends, as well as on previously
unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself, to detail her passionate
involvement with the Nazis, her secret agreements with them and
with Hitler, her use of slave labor, and her efforts to distance
herself from her Nazi sponsors after the war.
Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's
filmmaker," is one of the most controversial personalities of
the twentieth century. Her story is one of huge talent and huger
ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing
art and beauty from truth and humanity. Two of her films, Olympia
and Triumph of the Will, are universally regarded as among the
greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made, but they are
also insidious glorifications of Hitler and the Third Reich.
Relying on new sources--including interviews with her colleagues
and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings
of Riefenstahl herself--biographer Bach untangles the truths and
lies behind this gifted woman's lifelong self-vindication as an
apolitical artist who claimed she knew nothing of the Holocaust and
denied her complicity with the criminal regime she both used and
sanctified.
Steven Bach wurde in Pocatello, Idaho, geboren. Er studierte in den USA und and er Sorbonne und schrieb schon seine Doktorarbeit über Marlene Dietrich. Er produzierte Filme wie "Manhattan" von Woody Allen oder Scorseses "Raging Bull" und war Vizepräsident von United Artist. Über das Filmgeschäft schrieb er den Bestseller "Final Cut". Bach lebt und arbeitet in den USA.
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