Director-photographer and photographer of her directions are perhaps the best words for introducing Leni Riefenstahl.
Oppressed by a definitely uncomfortable historic past as a beautiful woman courted by Goebbels and admired by Hitler; obsessed by her work to the point of becoming blind and unable to understand what was going on around her; guilty of not leaving Germany at a time in history when “everyone” was doing it: intent solely on pursuing that ‘beauty’, that aesthetic sense that is always one of the greatest accusations made against her, with her camera.

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