From Stag Beetle to Swastika narrates in a richly detailed, associative montage the boundless possibilities of manipulating images and using images to seduce.
Himself
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.
Camera Operator
"Götterdämmerung 1945: The last 10 weeks of the Third Reich" - from the battle of the Ardennes till the end. Die Deutsche Wochenschau (The German Weekly Review) was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from 1940 until the end of World War II.
Director of Photography
Leni Riefenstahl faz do seu documentário sobre os Jogos de Berlim uma celebração ao corpo humano, combinando a poesia de corpos em movimento com close-up de atletas no calor de competição. No volume 1, destaque para a maratona e Jesse Owens, primeiro atleta a conquistar 4 medalhas de ouro em uma única olimpíada.
Camera Operator
Filming of the performance show the Deutsche Wehrmacht (German Army) made during the Reichsparteitag of the NSDAP in Nurnberg 1935. Showing the readiness and the will of the newly build army. The third documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
Director of Photography
Um registro grandioso do sexto Congresso do Partido Nazista, que aconteceu em Nuremberg no ano de 1934. No início Hitler chega de avião, e é ovacionado por multidões, que saúdam o Führer totalmente hipnotizadas. Tudo é mostrado de forma gigantesca, as paradas, os desfiles militares e os jovens que louvam a suástica parecendo em total estado de catarse.
