Leni Riefenstahl defending herself in a 1964 interview. English subs. 

She made one of the greatest films about the Olympics ever , a great artist with incredible talent

... lived to be 101 years old.

Uma das maiores cineastas do mundo.

Great woman and filmmaker.

All things being equal, she was a revolutionary filmmaker. Aerials, etc.

People in the comments either despise or absolutely love this woman it seems.

Most Germans never saw triumph of the Will

Leni, we will always remember you

She was a great film maker and a great liar. She did in fact personally select Romani extras imprisoned in a concentration camp near the film location of 'Tiefland', as attested by survivors who witnessed her do just that. Even on the film shoot they were treated terribly, locked up when not filming without heat or adequate food. I admire her films and photographs as powerful images but will never admire her. Like Albrecht Speer, after the war she pretended she was just an artist who knew nothing about the extermination camps, treatment of Jews and other 'undesirables' and all the other crimes in plain view, like the millions of slave laborers working all over Germany. They knew exactly what was going on; that they never took responsibility for it is contemptible.

Russian Soloviev and Simonyan would be talk this exactly way. "We didntt support that we didnt knew anything we were misleaded.."

2 Nd link doesn't appear to be working? Appalling that she continued to make money from the films even after the documentary evidence came to light.

Brilliant film maker with awesome techniques of the day. Triumph of will is an excellent output and there is no reason for her to be coy at admitting it. Cant understand why she was being reviled so much when people like Fritz Hippler who made such toxic films that compared Jews to rats got away scot free. Same is the case with the makers of another movie another movie 'Jude Suss'. Society has been unkind to her.

Isn't funny how she thinks that " I made this propagandist bullshit without being forced by Nazis but out of my own free will" is a valid defense that makes her look better.

Well there you have it guys she said, “there’s nothing to see here and it’s all in our imaginations.”

wie kann man nur so eine Frau verehren...

Triumph of the Will was a good film. Nothing wrong with it. The film itself has no relation to the atrocities that happened. Much like Bill Cosby shows have no relation to his raping behavior

Say what you w8ll about mr H, he gave women directors a chance.

For sure she was convinced nazy else he didnt made the Olimpia movie.

she lived a long time that is testament of god's will

She pioneered propaganda techniques that sent the whole world into the abyss but I find it difficult to believe that she does not realise how bad it looks when she’s reading those cue cards… I think she’s lying

So many ignats wannabee judges here.. They judge a time they don't understand.

Narcissistic woman

What a great lady

Everything else aside, she was a good looking woman

pure unapolgetic evil

RACIST

Holobunga

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