Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir

by Leni Riefenstahl

Overview

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

A memoir from one of the century's most remarkable and controversial women, an artist of the first order, Leni Riefenstahl.

Dancer, actor, and photographer, she is best known as the director of Triumph of the Will, a film of a Nazi Party rally and Olympia, the classic account of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It is for these works of cinematic propaganda that Riefenstahl is revered and reviled. In this autobiography, she discusses her motivations, her history, her important friendships, and, most of all, her art.

Along with insights into directing and camera work, Riefenstahl offers an emotional, powerful story of a woman who refuses to be defined by any terms other than her own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312119263
Publisher:	Picador
Publication date:	01/15/1995
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	672
Sales rank:	992,884
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.58(d)

About the Author

Leni Riefenstahl lives in Europe.

Editorial Reviews

"Some books are so exciting that you can't put them down. This one is so exciting that you often must put it down, lest you overdose on thrills . . . does not contain a single unspellbinding page" --John Simon, The New York Times Book Review

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