Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as "Hitler's filmmaker," made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl's lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know nothing of the Holocaust and denied her complicity with the criminal regime she both used and sanctified.

A riveting and illuminating biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/12/2008
ISBN: 9780307387752
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.23w x 0.86d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/24/2008 pg. 28