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There are two schools of thought on Leni Riefenstahl--the dominant one, following Siegfried Kracauer and Susan Sontag, sees her as a committed Nazi propagandist whose "fascist aesthetic" pervades all her work; the other, assiduously promoted by Riefenstahl herself, wants to redeem her as "pure" filmmaker, victim of circumstances, and feminist pioneer. The truth, at least as it emerges from Ray Mueller's three-hour documentary, lies somewhere in between, although Riefenstahl'... read more leave a comment
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