Leni Riefenstahl by Leni Riefenstahl
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Book Reviews of Leni Riefenstahl
Book Review: The art of film-making at its best
Summary: 5 Stars
Incredible, the insight she gives into the making of films before and during WWII. The trials and tribulations actors and film-makers endured is described in such detail that one can imagine being there.
The book is art, absolute art, all the way through, no matter what Riefenstahl describes. I especially loved the beginning of the book, the description of her childhood. It is so totally German. The customs, the sentiments, the feelings she describes returned me to the stories my mother and grandmother told me, and to many of my own childhood memories.
After reading her book, I believe that she has been deliberately maligned and that she was always only an artist, not ever a collaborator of Hitler.
I especially recommend the book to anyone who loves the art of film-making.
Book Review: Fascinating memiors of much maligned woman.
Summary: 5 Stars
It turns out that Leni R. is not only a great filmmaker, but a great writer. I found myself fascinated by this woman's triumphs and struggles, and saddened by the persecution of her that continued to the day of her death. There's something for everyone in this book, For 'creative people' you will find her insights fascinating....for the armchair adventurer, her travels to Greenland and Africa read like hemingway....the blurb on my addition says "coulnd't put it down' for once a book lived up to its expectations.
Side note:One of the great tragedies of the filmmaking is that this woman was essentially blacklisted after 1945 - and the hypocrisy of the people who do it and simulataneously heap praise on Sergi Eisentien (supporter of stalin) is appauling.
Book Review: fascinating and hauting
Summary: 5 Stars
Leni Riefenstahl is a monument! This book gives a excellent insight in what she did during the roaring twenties; the dark thirties & forties and mostly how she managed to actually not fade away in obscurity but become a celebrated photographer and underwater filmer. This woman is everything we all love to hate: narcistic; brillant; naive; opportunistic; ambitious etc. If only people would stop condemning her and look at the timeless aesthetics she created through the years! Monsters are rare and Riefenstahl is one of them. Cherish them because they show the essence of life. Please, send your ideas and views on Riefenstahl to my e-mail address: meertien.reenen@planet.nlBook Review: Leni Riefenstahl
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellent book! Very interesting, trying to understand this creative, atistic, energetic personality. It is a sad outcome that the war ruined her great abilities/gift she had to offer our world/society. What she could have accomplished had the war not interfered. Loved the ability this book gave me to try and understand the time period: the different views on what people were experiencing through all these changes in our world. One person's experiences in Germany from the 1920's through today, from the view of the filmmaking industry just beginning to grow. So VERY INTERESTING! Again, a SUPER GREAT READ. Anni J Teufel-HobergBook Review: Author response
Summary: 5 Stars
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