Leni Riefenstahl is read about 2,568 times a day, in 82 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 22 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 397 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
Birth of a NationFilm1993
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni RiefenstahlFilm, Herself1978BiographiesSeries1977
Games of the XXI OlympiadFilm1976Das ist Ihr LebenSeries1973Je später der AbendSeries1972Memories of a Summer in BerlinFilm, herself1965aspekteSeries1938Mussolini CupAward1935
Day of FreedomFilm, Director, Producer1932
The Blue LightFilm, Director, Writer1930
Storm Over Mont BlancFilm, Hella Armstrong1927
The Great LeapFilm, Gita1925
Ways to Strength and BeautyFilm1902Born22 August 1902Also in Deutsch
Photos 8
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Freiburg im Breisgau- Verhandlung der Unterlassungsklage von Leni Riefenstahl gegen Nina Gladitz vor dem Landgericht - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 140 Nr. 07662
Gadalla Gubara and RiefenstahlFilmography 40
FPFASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
RIRiefenstahl
CTCity of Toys
LILonging For Innocence
LMLeni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
CMChurchill and the Movie Mogul
HHHitler's Hollywood
LHLes Champions d'Hitler
FAFaszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief
TEThe Goebbels Experiment
LALeni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
UIUnderwater Impressions
FSFrom Stag Beetle to SwastikaBNBirth of a Nation
TFThe Night of the FilmmakersTRThe Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
TSTime of Darkness and SilenceGOGames of the XXI Olympiad
LOLowlands
ONOlympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
OBOlympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
TWTriumph of the WillDFDay of Freedom
TFThe Victory of Faith
SIS.O.S. Iceberg
SIS.O.S. IcebergTLThe Blue Light
TEThe White EcstasySBStorm Over Mont Blanc
TPThe White Hell of Pitz Palu
DHDas Schicksal derer von HabsburgTLThe Great Leap
TMThe Holy MountainWBWays to Strength and Beauty73 credits on file
Television 5
BOBuffa racconta Jesse OwensAwards
In their orbit 3
About this person
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.
In common with Leni
Georg Wilhelm PabstAlso in The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
Ernst UdetAlso in S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
Walter RuttmannAlso in Triumph of the Will (1935)
Luis TrenkerAlso in The Great Leap (1927)
Walter FrentzAlso in The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
Arnold FanckAlso in The White Ecstasy (1931)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.