Leni Riefenstahl

ActorDirectorProducerWriterEditor Aug 22 (died age 101) Berlin, Germany 1925–2025 (100 year career)

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Biography

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party. Riefenstahl's prominence in the Third Reich along with her personal friendship with Adolf Hitler thwarted her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arre…

Known For

Film

Triumph of the Will

Director

Film

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

Nude Dancer - Prologue (uncredited)

Film

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Director

Film

Riefenstahl

Self (archive footage)

Film

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

Herself

Film

The Blue Light

Junta

Film

The Holy Mountain

Diotima

Film

Hitler's Hollywood

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (39)

Movies (35)

FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts

2025

as Self (archive footage)

Riefenstahl

2024

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

City of Toys

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.7

Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und Hollywood

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Hitler's Hollywood

2017

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

6.4

Les Champions d'Hitler

2016

as Self

LENI

2015

as Self (archive footage)

In the Service of the Regime. Leni Riefenstahl

2009

as Self (archive footage)

Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief

2008

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Speer und er: Nachspiel - Die Täuschung

2005

as Herself

The Goebbels Experiment

2005

as Self (archival footage)

6.3

Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa

2003

as Self

4.0

From Stag Beetle to Swastika

2002

Underwater Impressions

2002

6.6

The Immoderation of Me - Sandra Maischberger meets Leni Riefenstahl

2002

as Self

Birth of a Nation

1997

as Self

6.3

The Night of the Filmmakers

1995

as Self

5.0

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

1993

as Herself

7.1

Time of Darkness and Silence

1982

as Self

6.0

Games of the XXI Olympiad

1977

as Self - Spectator

4.8

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

1976

as Self - Interviewee

Memories of a Summer in Berlin

1972

as herself

Lowlands

1954

as Martha

5.9

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

1938

as Nude Dancer - Prologue (uncredited)

S.O.S. Iceberg

as Ellen Lawrence

S.O.S. Iceberg

as Hella Lorenz

The Blue Light

as Junta

The White Ecstasy

as Leni

Storm Over Mont Blanc

1930

as Hella Armstrong

6.5

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

1929

as Maria Maioni

6.8

Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg

1928

as Maria Vetsera

The Great Leap

as Gita

The Holy Mountain

as Diotima

Ways to Strength and Beauty

1925

7.1

Television (4)

Biographies

1978

as Self

Das ist Ihr Leben

1976

as Self

Je später der Abend

1973

as Self

aspekte

1965

as Self

7.0

Crew (19)

Movies (19)

Underwater Impressions

Director

Lowlands

Producer

Hoch der Lambeth Valk

1941

Idea

7.3

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

1938

Director

6.9

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Director

Triumph of the Will

Director

Triumph of the Will

Editor

Triumph of the Will

Producer

Triumph of the Will

Screenplay

Day of Freedom

Director

Day of Freedom

Editor

Day of Freedom

Producer

The Victory of Faith

Director

The Victory of Faith

Editor

The Victory of Faith

Writer

The Blue Light

Director

The Blue Light

Editor

The Blue Light

Producer

The Blue Light

Story