[Leica] Re: LUG (OT) Riefenstahl

[marvbej at earthlink.net (Robert Marvin)]

Actually, she directed five propaganda films during the Nazi period  
(counting the two parts of Olympia separately):

Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der V?lker (1938)
... aka Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) (literal  
English title) (International: English title: literal title)
... aka Olympia 1. Teil - G?tter des Stadions (1938)
... aka Olympia: The Film of the XI. Olympic Games Berlin, 1936 (2004)  
(UK)
... aka Olympiad, The (1940) (USA)
5.      Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Sch?nheit (1938)
... aka Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) (literal English  
title) (International: English title: literal title)
... aka Olympia: The Film of the XI. Olympic Games, Part II (2004) (UK)
6.      Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht (1935)
... aka Day of Freedom (1935) (USA: video box title)
... aka N?rnberg 1935 (1935) (Germany: subtitle)
7.      Triumph des Willens (1934)
... aka Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934, Das (1934) (Germany:  
subtitle)
... aka Triumph of the Will (1934) (USA)
8.      Sieg des Glaubens, Der (1933)
... aka Victory of the Faith (1933) (International: English title)

from:

http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dynamic/ 
offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fus.imdb.com%2FName%3FRiefenstahl%2C%2BLeni

  Tiefland was also filmed during WW II, although it was released in the  
'50s. This was not a propaganda film, but " Many of the extras were  
Gypsies who were sent to the concentration camp Auschwitz after  
shooting wrapped"

Bob Marvin


On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 02:52  AM, Marc James Small wrote
> Pray, provide me with some hard evidence that she ever did more than
> produce two movies for the German government.
>
> Pray, provide me with some hard evidence of her career between 1933 and
> 1945 other than that she produced two movies for the German  
> government, one
> in 1934 and the other in 1936, and that she acted in three movies  
> between
> 1936 and 1945 and in minor roles.