Never forget Kevin Brownlow's 1966 masterpiece "It Happened Here"
@fraserbailey6347
Жыл бұрын
She was cleared of everything she was accused of. Read her memoirs. Yes, she was fascinated by Hitler, and was staggeringly naive. But all she wanted to do was make films.
@shanel7707
2 жыл бұрын
Well, this start with "my best friends are black" (my mum is anti-Nazi) , then strawman (she personally built the camps), finally to whataboutism (Sergei Eisenstein) in all of 5 mins. I'm sure it all sounded lot less lame in his head.
@MarijkeWillemsen990
2 ай бұрын
I think she was firs an artist obsessed with her work. if she was not a genial filmer, she wouldn’t have been in trouble so much. We will never know all she did or did not. She should have gone tot the States and be a hero there. She refused to film as a war correspondent and I read that her films Olympia and Triumph of the Will received prices due to outstanding achievement in Europe on film festivals before the war. Then they were apparently good films. If she was a rocket scientist she would have been pampered by the Americans. What is not mentioned is the her special way of filming reflects what she learned from Rudolf Laban, great dancer and choreographer and the author of a language system to describe movement. I was educated by a pupil of Laban and Leni Riefenstahl was also a pupil of Rudolf of Laban, when she had her career as ballerina (she had to abort this career due to knee problems). In the first 5 minutes of Olympia I already recognized the work of Laban. Hist views on esthetics and movement in space…Sometimes I wonder what great film achievements we would have had if she was pardoned or rehabilitated in some way…
@TheStockwell
6 жыл бұрын
It's fascinating to hear a film historian of Brownlow's stature speak in detail about Riefenstahl as a filmmaker - and a Hitler "enthusiast." I am amazed by her work and find "Triumph of the Will" to be brilliant - until the "star" of her film, Hitler, shows up. Whatever else she accomplished, she made Hitler look good. For that, her reputation will always be under a very dark cloud. As cinema, the film is a genuine creative achievement. Politically, it's totally repulsive. I've met a few Germans who have told me how proud they felt about how he turned the country around. "He was our Roosevelt." Eventually, they came to feel nothing but shame for their earlier enthusiasm. Riefenstahl never felt or expressed that shame. Thank you for uploading this.
@robertbates6249
5 жыл бұрын
well said
@ralphpezda6523
2 жыл бұрын
Brownlow explained she was naive and had a blindspot when it came to Nazism.
@shanel7707
2 жыл бұрын
@@ralphpezda6523 You missed TheStockwell's point. Other people were also naive and had a blindspot but they owned up to their mistake. She never did. To her the only mistake was that it made her later life more difficult.
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy
Жыл бұрын
It's always fascinating to see the beauty evil cloaks itself in. Brownlow had realized his 1966 masterpiece "It Happened Here"
@louduva9849
Жыл бұрын
@@shanel7707 Leni was based. Cry more!
@RememberNineEleven
Ай бұрын
'Triumph of the Will' had a massive budget shadow financed through the Reich Chancellory and officially by UFA studios. She utilised known feature film techniques : moving cranes (fire ladders), dollies and aerial shots from airships and aircraft. She employed the best feature film DoP's, gaffers and grips The music was composed by Herbert Windt - the John Williams of his time. . Her genius was to bring all that together in a project commissioned by Hitler with the assistance of all divisions of the NSDAP which supplied the hundreds of thousands of extras for free.
@AestheticOfTheImage
11 ай бұрын
The witty revelation Kevin Brownlow shares about Leni Riefenstahl's comment regarding the "shitty light" did not happen when she was being filmed in front of her house, but in fact when she was being filmed at Nuremberg in front of the famous Zeppelin Grandstand where she filmed Triumph of the Will (1935) [See, The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) by Ray Müller, Clip: "This shitty light!" kzitem.info/news/bejne/spisxYdmsoJyaY4 for the actual clip that Brownlow mentions)
@lula5516
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, is there any chance I could know where this clip is from?
@lachambreverte
3 жыл бұрын
It's from To Tell the Truth: A History of Documentary Film.
@phil3924
2 жыл бұрын
It’s hilarious how much effort people go through to avoid saying anything good about the Nazis. He says they were unoriginal and not creative but they also said they were creative. Their technology was so far ahead of everybody. Look at their photographic and rocket programs for starters
@htxtaj
Жыл бұрын
there’s no humor in the Nazis tainting human history. It shouldn’t be hard to understand how anything remotely good they did is stained by their latter actions.
@cielciel1535
Ай бұрын
It is not true ,the times in the other documentary he references that she was walking off at different times was not because her arguments of the technicalities of the filming. In noted plural cases, she is vehemently defending herself over valid questions regarding her documented participation with the Nazis. It is clear her role was well orchestrated and now there exists a cadre of people wishing to rehabilitate her complicity.
@AestheticOfTheImage
11 ай бұрын
I like the comment about Kevin Brownlow's mother liking LR 2:00
@mxbravo3108
6 ай бұрын
A lot of the creative input came from Riefenstahls cameraman Willy Zielke, whose tragic life story gets mentioned far too little.
@clarkewi
2 жыл бұрын
Riefenstahl was not a political person. And it should be remembered until late in WW2, the Germans were winning. With many in the west quite supportive of the Nazi crusade against bolshevism because they feared bolshevism.
@arianrhodhyde7482
4 жыл бұрын
She used extras from a concentration camp in one of her films. She might have been nice at the dinner table but she escaped justice.
@kevinriddell2105
Жыл бұрын
That has been proven as false
@mxbravo3108
6 ай бұрын
@@kevinriddell2105not quite. The extras had been held in internment camps where she recruited them. Many ended up in Auschwitz, where they perished.
@BillyJr68
3 жыл бұрын
I do not think she was that naive. She blamed her lack of success in Hollywood on ‘those Jews’.
@phil3924
2 жыл бұрын
Her German connections certainly didn’t help
@mesolithicman164
2 жыл бұрын
Given that all the studio heads were Jews, and with her background, I'm sure she was correct.
@decimustv4257
11 ай бұрын
I think she is a despicable person and I love that her career was destroyed.
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