Leni Riefenstahl behind film camera 1936 color added 2016
by David Lee Guss
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Leni Riefenstahl behind film camera 1936 color added 2016
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Riefenstahl attended dancing academies and became well known for her self-styled interpretive dancing skills, traveling across Europe with Max Reinhardt in a show funded by Jewish producer Harry Sokal. Riefenstahl often made almost 700 Reichmarks for each performance and was so captivated with dancing that she gave filmmaking no thought. She began to suffer foot injuries that led to knee surgery, threatening her dancing career, It was while going to a doctor's appointment that she first saw a poster for the 1924 film Der Berg des Schicksals ('The Mountain of Destiny').She became inspired to go into movie making, and began visiting the cinema to see films and also attended film shows.
On one of her adventures, Riefenstahl met Luis Trenker, who was an actor from Der Berg des Schicksals. At a meeting arranged by her friend Gunther Rahn, she met Arnold Fanck, the director of Der Berg des Schicksals and a pioneer of the mountain film genre. Fanck was working on a film in Berlin. After Riefenstahl told him how much she admired his work, she also convinced him of her acting skill. She persuaded him to feature her in one of his movies. Riefenstahl later received a package from Fanck containing the script of the 1926 film Der Heilige Berg ('The Holy Mountain'). She made a series of films for Fanck, where she learned from him acting and film editing techniques. One of Fanck's films that brought Riefenstahl into the limelight was Die Weisse H�lle vom Piz Pal� ('The White Hell of Piz Pal��) of 1929, co-directed by G. W. Pabst. Her fame spread to countries outside Germany."
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October 22nd, 2016
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