Biography:
German actress/filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl began her performing career as a dancer in 1920, studying with famed instructor Mary Wigman. In 1926, she was cast by director Dr. Arnold Fanck in the first of her many "mountain films" (a genre peculiar to Germany that had been popularized by Fanck), Peaks of Destiny (1926). The best known a... Continue Bio >>

Filmography:
1995 Die Nacht der Regisseure
1993 The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
1976 Lostine
1972 Leni Riefenstahl
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