POST WAR YEARS

THE STRUGGLE TO BREAK FREE 

  UNDER  

 CONSTRUCTION  

 "Boo, shame on you ! " Leni Riefenstahl's career achievement award ceremony at the 1997 Cinecon is marred by disruptive shouts in the audience. 

photograph by Patrick Zarate

" What was Leni Riefenstahl's sin ? That she was admired by Hitler ? "

The potential artistic achievements of a truly great talent remain forever lost as a consequence. 

Her repeated need to defend herself and the ensuing court victories is an area of her life that  is rarely examined in the press.

We will attempt to cull together a chronos of the unrealized film projects, the thwarted attempts to secure funding, the media attacks and lawsuits in order to understand what Riefenstahl has been able to accomplish despite the censure which has endured for over five decades.

REVISIT THIS SECTION IN MID 2004