Do you think she was a nazi ?
or do you think she was just in it for money?
2007-01-23 01:44:46 · 5 answers · asked by Charles R 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I do not know whether she was a Nazi or in it for the money but Leni Reifenshtahl was a great producer of cinema and she glorified the human body and the olympic games with her movie documentary about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie producer ad desired to produce more movie for Nazi propaganda. This would unfortunately gave her a bad name until her death. She definitely had a flair for her art and her documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is still regarded as one of the greatest displays of the glory of the human body and showing it in the spectra of the olympics and bolstering a view of a master race build upon athleticism and superior abilities .
2007-01-23 02:16:05 · answer #1 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Leni Riefenstahl was an renowned filmmaker in Germany at the time of the Third Reich. Her films caught the eye of Adolf Hitler and he recruited her to make propaganda films for him.
The Olympiad 1938 was one of hers and it was a film about how the Aryan race was superior over other races. Something Jessie Owens was to prove wrong at the Berlin Olympics.
Leni was well paid for her work in making the Nazis look good on celluloid and she outlived the Nazis by decades.
She died in Berlin aged 100 back in 2000 I think it was.
2007-01-23 01:53:47 · answer #2 · answered by The Alchemist 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably a little of both. The Nationalist Socialist party was all the rage in Germany at the time and she was rubbing elbows with Hitler and other top party officials, advancing her career in the process. Hitler gave her everything she needed to produce/direct "Triumph of the Will", I doubt any up-and-coming film producer/director would refuse such an offer, especially at that time. She took advantage of a good situation that would later tarnish her career, how was she to know in the mid-1930s' that Hitler and the Nazi party would spiral out of control.
2007-01-23 02:09:11 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think back about the timing the Nazi were not the super scum that they became later when she made her film they had not started all of the criminal activities and she was just another artist who wanted to practice her craft don't really think that she held the same ideals as Hitler at that for a woman to be given anything artistic to do on a grand scale was a big deal so I believe that she jumped at the chance to make her films because nothing else was open to her
2007-01-23 01:52:06 · answer #4 · answered by doc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She sued many times people who called her a Nazi and she won every case.
2007-01-23 02:51:03 · answer #5 · answered by john b 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋