Wer war Leni Riefenstahl: Die Regisseurin des NS-Films | SPIEGEL TV

She was Adolf Hitler's favorite director: Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, known as Leni. As the “Reich film director”, she staged the Nazi mass marches in an overwhelming and aesthetic way, portraying the “Führer” as the savior and his accomplices as his disciples. In this way, Riefenstahl made a decisive contribution to popularizing National Socialism. The images she created of the Olympic Games in 1936 are still considered groundbreaking film art today and contributed to her myth as an innovative filmmaker.