Leni Riefenstahl
Country: Germany
Total Credits at Criticker: 15 (Actor), 8 (Director), 5 (Writer)
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A documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis. (imdb)
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him. (imdb)
The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. When Karl's young friend, Vigo, meets her she gives him her scarf. The infatuated Vigo mistakenly believes she is in love with him. Karl sees Diotima innocently caressing Vigo and he believes that Diotima is betraying him with his friend. (imdb)
Junta is hated by the people in the village where she lives, especially by the women, who suspect her of being a witch. Only she can climb the nearby mountains to a cave high up, whence a mysterious blue light glows when the moon is full. Many young men of the village have died trying to follow her. She is driven out of town, and takes to living in the mountains. Eventually she shares the secret of the blue light with one man, and he betrays it. (imdb)
The story concerns a gypsy beggar-dancer who wanders into a Spanish village, where a shepherd falls in love with her (imdb)
With photography that's full of beauty and grace, Leni Riefenstahl shows underwater flora and fauna in an unparalleled way, serving to also seek to protect it in these times of increasing environmental destruction. The magnificently colourful images are simultaneously both calm and full of spirit, and carry one along on a wonderful journey through the world of our oceans.
The film can be described as an essay or polemic on the virtues of living a fit and healthy life. Divided into six parts, the film sets out with a portrait of modern German society as a hedonistic sty, before moving on to investigations of the various ways of leading a healthy life.
In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside world is a pilot and Hella over the morse-code-radio. As Hella climbs the mountain with her father, the father dies. Also Hannes gets endangered as his fingers freeze. But Hella gets help. (imdb)
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
An exhilarating view of skiing the German Alps, with a load in your pants. (imdb)
The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lotte Eisner, Elisabeth Bergner, Francis Lederer, Carl Zuckmayer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Kolisch, Mischa Spoliansky, Herbert Bayer, Mrs. Walter Gropius, and Arthur Koestler. (wikipedia)
Narration of the tragic events that occurred in Mayerling to Emperor Franz Joseph of the Habsburgs, as well as to the Archduke and Baroness Maria Vetsera, which ended up leading to World War I.
Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities.