Riefenstahl

[grip at netcom.com]

On Thu, 6 Jul 1995, Tim Holahan wrote:

>   
>   Did anybody (in the New York area, at least) see a documentary on Public 
>   TV last night about Leni Riefenstahl? I started watching towards the end. 
>   She was making a film about the Strength and Beauty of the young men of a 
>   particular African tribe, but refused to acknowledge the existence of a 
>   "fascist visual aesthetic" (let alone apologize for some of her earlier 
>   work on Strength and Beauty).
>   
>   The film ended showing her filming in and around a coral reef with her 
>   boyfriend, Horst (50 years younger than Leni). There was a heart-warming 
>   scene with a giant stingray. I never found out the name of the film, but 
>   I think it may be called something like "The Strange and Terrible Life of 
>   Leni Riefenstahl."
>   

About the film or about LR? 

When I started reading GR and got to the sequences with Greta, I 
immediately thought of Leni. I saw the film last winter. The beginning 
shows her as a young actress in a series of Alpine films. Sound familiar? 

I asked about this on this list a couple of months ago but no one responded.

grip