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BLUE LIGHT, THE
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A painter falls in love with a young girl whom the villagers fear as a witch because only she can reach the dangerous mountain peak. When the painter discovers her secret route, she jumps off a cliff. Riefenstahl's first film as director was shot on location and emphasizes the romantic mysticism of the mountains and the transmuting power of nature. The film so impressed Hitler he asked her to make films for the Nazis. Co-scripted by Bela Balasz. In German with English subtitles. Leni Riefenstahl---Germany---1932---77 mins.
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FESTLICHES NURNBERG
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Picking up where Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will left off, this German propaganda film features highlights from Party rallies at Nuremberg in 1936 and 1937. From Hitler's airfield arrival and motorcade, to mass folk-dance performances, parachute drops, cavalry, infantry and Panzer formations, artillery fire, live explosions and fireworks, torchlit marches and night rallies, the film argues its case for an ever-growing bond between party and nation. In German with English subtitles. Leni Riefenstahl---Germany---1937---21 mins.
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OLYMPIA (2DISCS)
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Leni Riefenstahl was given unlimited resources and full artistic freedom to produce this two-part film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Engrossingly beautiful, the film provides a glimpse of the Nazi mystique and idealization of the youthful male body. Famous sequences include the men's diving competition, Jesse Owen's sprint races and Riefenstahl's use of telephoto lenses and slow motion. Includes Parts One and Two: Festival of the Nations and Festival of Beauty. In German with English subtitles. Leni Riefenstahl---Germany---1938---204 mins.
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TIEFLAND
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Based on the libretto for D'Abert's opera, Riefenstahl directs and plays a gypsy dancer caught between a handsome shepard and an imperious marquis. Filmed largely between 1940 and 1945, Riefenstahl worked slowly to avoid working on any political films. Released successfully in 1954. In German with Leni Riefenstahl---Germany---1940 -1945---98 mins.
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TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
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As an historical record, a cautionary example of propaganda filmmaking, and, yes, as a work of art, Leni Riefenstahl's documentary film of the 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg stands as one of the most important movies ever made. Enormously controversial to this day, the film's powerful imagery retains its dramatic impact even as its message offends. Hitler, Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler and other architects of the Holocaust are glorified in this troubling, yet beautifully filmed work. Essential viewing for film and history scholars or, for that matter, anyone who wants to understand how even the darkest sort of leadership can be reinforced through media manipulation. In German with English subtitles. Leni Riefenstahl---Germany---1935---122 mins.
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TRIUMPH OF THE WILL (SPECIAL EDITION)
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Enormously controversial to this day, the powerful imagery of Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film retains its dramatic impact even as its message offends.
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VICTORY OF FAITH
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The first in a long line of aesthetically impressive and ideologically abhorrent films made by the extraordinarily talented Leni Riefenstahl. Riefenstahl captures a Nazi Party Rally celebrating the tenth anniversary of the National Socialist movement, with appearances by Adolph Hitler and other party officials. The film can be seen as a prequel to Riefenstahl's propaganda masterpiece, The Triumph of the Will. In German WITHOUT English Leni Riefenstahl---Germany---1933---61 mins.
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