Leni Riefenstahl

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The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Len... (FILM) Mar. 16, 1994

Tiefland (FILM) Jan. 1, 1954

Das Blaue Licht (FILM) Jan. 1, 1933

S.O.S. Eisberg (FILM) Jan. 1, 1933

Der Grosse Sprung (FILM) Jan. 1, 1927

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2002 Released first film in almost 50 years, "Underwater Impressions"; a 45-minute compilation of footage shot during scuba dives made between 1974 and 2000; release timed to coincide with her 100th birthd

2000 Was injured in a plane crash in the Sudan; broke several ribs; was on visit attempting to reconnect with Nuba tribespeople she had met on previous visits

1997 First exhibit of her photography in postwar Germany (Hamburg); pointedly, there were no stills from "Triumph of the Will"

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2002 Released first film in almost 50 years, "Underwater Impressions"; a 45-minute compilation of footage shot during scuba dives made between 1974 and 2000; release timed to coincide with her 100th birthd

2000 Was injured in a plane crash in the Sudan; broke several ribs; was on visit attempting to reconnect with Nuba tribespeople she had met on previous visits

1997 First exhibit of her photography in postwar Germany (Hamburg); pointedly, there were no stills from "Triumph of the Will"

1995 Appeared as herself in "The Night of the Film-makers"

1993 Subject of Ray Muller's documentary, "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl"

1974 Honored at Telluride (Colorado) Film Festival; festival picketed by anti-Nazi groups

1974 Learned scuba diving; began taking a series of underwater photographs

1972 Commissioned by the London Times to photograph the Munich Olympics

1962 Returned to Africa (the southern Sudan) to film and photograph the Mesakin Nuba tribe, living among them and recording their daily lives, their ceremonies and their athletic contests

1956 Traveled to Africa to begin work on "Black Cargo", a documentary on the modern slave trade made on behalf of the London Anti-Slave Society; project came to an end after her serious injury in a car acc

1955 Hollywood jury voted "Olympia" one of the ten finest motion pictures of all time

1954 Completed editing on and released "Tiefland" (shot between 1940 and 1944), her last film for almost 50 years

1952 In response to a published picture of her watching the massacre of Polish civilians by German troops in 1939, requested an inquiry in a West Berlin denazification court; witnesses supported her claim

1948 Trimmed-down (to an hour-and-a-half), propaganda-free version of "Olympia" released as "King of the Olympics"

1945 - 1948 Detained in American and French internment camps, undergoing denazification

1940 Refused Goebbels' invitation to make propaganda films and began work on a non-musical version of Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland"

1939 Worked briefly as a war correspondent; followed advancing German army into Poland with a camera team

1938 "Olympia", using footage of the 1936 Olympics released on Hitler's birthday (April 20)

1938 Made first trip to USA to promote "Olympia"; film did not find a US distributor

1936 Filmed Olympic Games in Berlin

1935 Made short documentary, "Day of Freedom", to celebrate the Wehrmacht (German army)

1934 Asked by Hitler to film Nuremberg Nazi party rally, resulting in "Triumph of the Will" (1935)

1933 Last film with Fanck, "S.O.S. Iceberg"

1933 Appointed by Hitler as "film expert to the National Socialist Party"

1932 Film directing debut with "The Blue Light" (co-wrote with Bela Balazs)

1932 Met Adolf Hitler

1931 Founded own production company, Leni Riefenstahl Studio Films

1930 First talkie, Fanck's "Avalanche"

1929 Most popular mountain film with Fanck, "The White Hell of Piz Palu"

1927 Reteamed with Fanck and Trenker for "The Great Leap"

1926 Signed contract with Arnold Fanck, playing a dancer turned climber in "Peaks of Destiny/The Holy Mountain"; co-starred opposite Luis Trenker

1924 Knee injury ended her dancing career

Raised in Berlin

Attracted attention of Max Reinhardt, who sent her on a tour of Europe in a program of modern dances of her own creation

Ostracized and denied a chance to continue filmmaking, turned to still photography

Recently Worked With...

Franz Eichenberger

Tiefland

Released: Jan. 1, 1954

Rod La Rocque

S.O.S. Eisberg

Released: Jan. 1, 1933

Mathias Wieman

Das Blaue Licht

Released: Jan. 1, 1933

Luis Trenker

Der Grosse Sprung

Released: Jan. 1, 1927

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