# Leni Riefenstahl

> Her propaganda films for the Nazi regime remain among the most technically accomplished and morally damning works in cinema history. The question that followed her for six decades: how much did she know, and when.

*German filmmaker (1902–2003)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1902-08-22
- **Died:** 2003-09-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

A dancer and actress in Weimar Germany, Riefenstahl saw a poster for Mountain of Destiny in 1924 and pivoted to film, starring in five pictures before directing The Blue Light in 1932. In the 1930s she made Triumph of the Will and Olympia for Adolf Hitler, with whom she formed a friendly relationship — films that brought worldwide acclaim for their innovation and worldwide condemnation for their purpose. Arrested after the war, she was classified as a Nazi "fellow traveller" but faced no war crimes charges. She spent the rest of her long life denying knowledge of the Holocaust, a stance critics called the embodiment of the "how could we have known?" defence, and worked as a photographer until her death at 101.

## Fame
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## Topics
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