Leni Riefenstahl A Memoir

ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year. One of the century's most remarkable and controversial women, Leni Riefenstahl is an artist of the first order. Dancer, actor, and photographer, she is best known as the director ofTriumph of the Will, a film of a Nazi Party rally andOlympia, 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.Riefenstahl, Leni is the author of 'Leni Riefenstahl A Memoir', published 1995 under ISBN 9780312119263 and ISBN 0312119267.