Leni Riefenstahl DEAD

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Has anyone seen any of her films made about her diving experiences (she learned to scuba in her 70s and went on 200+ subsequent dives)? Opinions?

Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link

i was actually meaning to start a thread to see what everyone thought of capra. i haven't seen any riefenstahl aside from about 20 minutes of "olympia" but i'm about to watch the documentary about her in my german class.

Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 11 September 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

I watched this Riefenstahl doc a few years back and in interviews from her latter years she was saying Goebbels despised her because she wasn't ever really a proper nazi. But in Goebbels dairies he slags the fuck out of everybody - even Hitler at times - but doesn't have bad word to say about her iirc. His entries on her were sort of like: "what an honour it is to have dinner with such a hugely talented and spectacular specimen of Aryan womanhood ... phwoar .. cor blimey she's quite fit as well etc.."

MoMsnet (calzino), Saturday, 3 July 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link


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