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Leni Riefenstahl
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22 August 1902 - 8 September 2003
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Leni Riefenstahl, née Helena Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl, was born in Berlin on 22 August 1902. Deciding to become a dancer, she began to attend dance classes secretly from her father, and then studied ballet at the Berlin School of Art. Who knows how her future fate would have developed, but on her career as a dancer, a fat cross was put by a severe knee injury, so with the light hand of the director. Arnold Funk Leni Riefenstahl began to take part in his “mountain” films, the most successful of
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Leni Riefenstahl, née Helena Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl, was born in Berlin on 22 August 1902. Deciding to become a dancer, she began to attend dance classes secretly from her father, and then studied ballet at the Berlin School of Art. Who knows how her future fate would have developed, but on her career as a dancer, a fat cross was put by a severe knee injury, so with the light hand of the director.
Arnold Funk Leni Riefenstahl began to take part in his “mountain” films, the most successful of which can be called “White Hell of Pitz-Palu”, which was released in 1929.
Leni Riefenstahl’s directorial debut took place in 1932, when her film “Blue Light” was released, where she was simultaneously a producer, co-writer, editor, and even played the main role in a couple of films.
Mick Jagger Andy Warhol, participating in exhibitions and publishing photo albums. When she was 72, Leni had a new hobby - scuba diving, thanks to which she made more than 2000 dives.
The bright and interesting life of this unusual woman was cut short on September 9, 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl died in her sleep in her home near Munich at the age of 102.