The best Leni Riefenstahl’s movies

Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

22/08/1902- 08/09/2003
We present our ranking of the best Leni Riefenstahl’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Leni Riefenstahl.
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The Blue Light

The Blue Light
6.8/10
A young woman, Junta, lives apart from her village and, for her solitude and strangeness, is considered to be a witch; when she comes to the village for one reason or another, the townsfolk chase her away. They feel that she may in some way be responsible for the deaths of several young men of the village, who have felt compelled, one by one, to climb the local mountain - and fall to their deaths - on nights when the moon is full.

White Hell of Pitz Palu

White Hell of Pitz Palu
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/10/1929
  • Character: Maria Maioni
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.

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/04/1938
  • Character: Self (uncredited)
The First part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 1938 and again in 1952 after the fall of the Nazi Regime.

Lowlands

Lowlands
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/02/1954
  • Character: Martha
Set in the early part of 20th century Europe. There lived a dancer who becomes the romantic bone of contention between a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.

Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1997
  • Character: Herself
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain
6.6/10
Professional dancer Diotima finds herself the apex of a love triangle when she is pursued by two mountain climbers, Vigo and his unnamed older friend.

The Big Jump

The Big Jump
6.1/10
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

White Ecstasy

White Ecstasy
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1931
  • Character: Leni
Leni, a daring young girl, is visiting for the second time a ski-resort. The local ski-teachers agree to organize a "fox-hunt" for her. Leni and Hannes are "the foxes", and about 40 other skiers will have to catch them, starting with a 15 minutes delay. It's not the story that makes this film, but the extremely spectacular, thrilling shots about skiing.

Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
6.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 22/10/2020
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have not seen them in their entirety. The work of the German director has burned itself into the collective memory. Even decades after the end of the Nazi era, she showed no remorse and presented herself as an apolitical, naive follower of the Nazi criminal regime. Her artistic service for the cinema was always recognized. But book author Nina Gladitz shows after decades of research that Hitler's favorite filmmaker was not only a follower, but also a perpetrator during the Third Reich, who instrumentalized other filmmakers such as the brilliant cinematographer Willy Zielke in order to gain fame for herself.

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/09/1993
  • Character: Herself
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.

Storm Over Mont Blanc

Storm Over Mont Blanc
6.3/10
  • Release: 25/12/1930
  • Character: Hella Armstrong
In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph, Hanes (Sepp Rist) communicates with a beautiful astronomer (Leni Riefenstahl) and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot (Ernst Udet) upon whom he depends on supplies. In the midst of a ferocious snowstorm, Hannes loses his gloves and his weather station is battered by the elements. Suffering frostbite and unable to descend the mountain, he sends out a desperate S.O.S. in the hope that someone can brave the elements and rescue him from certain death. Eerily romantic and overshadowed by the constant threat of doom, Storm over Mont Blanc is a "quintessential " mountain film by Arnold Fanck, the genre's innovator and unparalleled master.

Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co

Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
5.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/2000
  • Character: Herself (archive footage)

Games of the XXI Olympiad

Games of the XXI Olympiad
6.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/04/1977
  • Character: Herself - Spectator
Edited from almost 100 km of film footage shot during the Games, this feature documentary is a breathtaking portrait of the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Much more than a simple record of the Games, the film approaches each event with the intention of revealing the athlete - whether winner or loser - as a unique individual.

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
8.4/10
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.

S.O.S. Iceberg

S.O.S. Iceberg
6.6/10
A expedition goes in search of a party lost the year before.

Speer and Hitler

Speer and Hitler
7.5/10
A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.

Time of Darkness and Silence

Time of Darkness and Silence
7/10
Examines the use of Sinti in the making of "Tiefland". Gladitz claims that Riefenstahl knew that they would be sent to Auschwitz.

Underwater Impressions

Underwater Impressions
7.2/10
Riefenstahl explores the undersea world of coral reefs in various oceans around the world. Soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder.

Ways to Strength and Beauty

Ways to Strength and Beauty
5.8/10
  • Release: 16/03/1925
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.

Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg

Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1928
  • Character: Maria Vetsera

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