Leni Riefenstahl
Directing
42
Acting Credits
10
Directed
Biography
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party. Riefenstahl's prominence in the Third Reich along with her personal friendship with Adolf Hitler thwarted her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arre...
Known For
Filmography
FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Riefenstahl
2024
as Self (archive footage)
City of Toys
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Buffa racconta Jesse Owens
2017
Les Champions d'Hitler
2016
as Self
The Run
2016
LENI
2015
as Self (archive footage)
In the Service of the Regime. Leni Riefenstahl
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Speer und er: Nachspiel - Die Täuschung
2005
as Herself
The Goebbels Experiment
2005
as Self (archival footage)
Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
2003
as Self
Underwater Impressions
2002
From Stag Beetle to Swastika
2002
The Immoderation of Me - Sandra Maischberger meets Leni Riefenstahl
2002
as Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
as Self
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
1993
as Herself
Time of Darkness and Silence
1982
as Self
Biographies
1978
as Self
Games of the XXI Olympiad
1977
as Self - Spectator
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
1976
as Self - Interviewee
Das ist Ihr Leben
1976
as Self
Je später der Abend
1973
as Self
Memories of a Summer in Berlin
1972
as herself
aspekte
1965
as Self
Lowlands
1954
as Martha
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
1938
as Nude Dancer - Prologue (uncredited)
S.O.S. Iceberg
1933
as Hella Lorenz
S.O.S. Iceberg
1933
as Ellen Lawrence
The Blue Light
1932
as Junta
The White Ecstasy
1931
as Leni
Storm Over Mont Blanc
1930
as Hella Armstrong
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
1929
as Maria Maioni
Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg
1928
as Maria Vetsera
The Great Leap
1927
as Gita
The Holy Mountain
1926
as Diotima
Ways to Strength and Beauty
1925