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| | World Cinema: Directors -- Leni Riefenstahl |
 | | Trained as a dancer, Riefenstahl started her film career as an actress in Arnold Fanck's "mountain films" (Der heilige Berg / The Holy Mountain, 1926, among others). |
 | | With her first film as a director, Das blaue Licht / The Blue Light (1932), Riefenstahl not only gained critical and commercial success, but also won Hitler's personal approval, leading to a commission to film the Nuremberg Party Convention in 1934. |
 | | Triumph des Willens / Triumph of the Will (1935), with its careful orchestration of narrative structure and spectacle, remains the best-known film of Nazi cinema, retaining its ambivalent power of propaganda and visual pleasure. |
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