Leni Riefenstahl (The mother of modern film.) Pt.1

[stepherroo444]

I can't understand a word she says ugh

[Downfacingdog]

Triumph of the Jesuits!

[sbecker3]

Will Quentin Tarentino bear responsibility some day for all the warm feeling that Inglorious Basterds has engendered? Ask the Weinsteins.

[tricesimo]

Nazi scum...

[bcr004]

People like Reni bear a lot of responsibility for the nazi atrocities. 'Useful idiots' like her helped the nazis capture public imagination and carry out their atrocities. Her hands are covered with as much blood as any Waffen SS murderer.

[BlackCountryPuddler]

Did she film the women and kids being stuffed into the gas chamber at Treblinka?

[JWirtel]

Backed the wrong horse....Read "Hitler's Willing Accomplices" and you'll give up your misconception that "nobody knew"..

[tinabena2]

Triumph of the Will starring a cast of thousands of German corpses. See how excited they are to march to their deaths. Hitler and his Nazi party is the worst thing to ever happen to Germany.

[88Loki14]

in bred kanadian fuks. ich hasse kanada

[steinber]

@88Loki14 and you went to university in canada too? that's a shame you piece of useless cunt shit.

[Linksforever1]

Nieder mit den Nazis

[dkb0ys]

she is imortalized true her films

and theres nothing you (zionists) can do

[Marleneagnes]

Great lady! 88

[AkumA05]

No one knew what was going on in those camps. The truth was found out later. Or the victors truth at least. You think Hitler was like oh by the way Leni my dear I mass murder Jews. No of corse not. Google Hitlers anti Jew speaches, you won't find any. But Stalins Stalinization of eastern Europe where 12 million of my countrymen and women died in Ukraine alone. Which is known and recorded. Fuck who cares about that. Stupid morons, you think you see through propaganda, but you are a victim of it.

[spinliquid]

She was beyond the shadow of a doubt, one of the greatest film directors of all times. But she was also fated to live in some of the darkest times in world history. Too bad. I wish some one with her talent were alive in our times. Movies would become very interesting again!!!

[palapung]

A visionary film genius of her time with extraordinary artistic talent. It was unfortunate that she was fated to serve the Nazis.

[mokacode]

she was opportunist and her options were bad...

[Gybeman88]

OMG. Her English is soooo bad ^^

[pseudonym1964]

I expect that your German is fluent. Idiot. You come to watch this historical documentary and all you do is comment on her English? You are thick. Eff off.

[chissiez1]

I guess she was brought up speaking German -

what do you think?

[enerqe]

Los autores de los condenatorios comentarios sobre L.Rienfensthal son hipócritas. Sus films sobreviven a Hitler. Sus críticos hubieran querido que ella se comportara como si supiera lo que pasaría después. El 90% de los alemanes apoyó a Hitler y ninguno de los que formaban esta masa anónima dejó alguna obra de arte trascendente. También hay que condenar al pueblo alemán por aquella barbarie en a cual nada tuvo que ver L. Rienfensthal.

[virgins87]

Прошлое нельзя изменить или переписать съизново.

Его или принемают и делают выводы

или отрецают и тогда история догоняет и повторяется с ешё худшеми последствиями.

[muffett93]

i agree she was an amazing artist

but still that doesnt change the fact that she had no moral grounds

and contiued to make films for hitler when she knew what was going on with the concentration camps etc

[LOVEcanheal]

Nazi propoganda....

[GreatGrumbledook]

Poor gifted woman! She was a great artist but got herself linked to the dictatorship in her country and with its defeat she became somewhat stained by it and her problem is highly connected with the problem of film making itself: Breker could make his sculptures, Schmitt still write his essays but she would never been able to make a film, because no one would give her the financial means to do it. If this would not have happened to her she would be hailed like Kurosawa or Kubrick (at least).

[fonriche]

So what?She had the right to be a nasional sosialist,az other had the same right to be anything ideological.And ho are you?The jujde of ideas?

[moonpie99]

She might not have been a registered Nazi, but she is as Nazi as one!!!

[vassilyf]

Stalin killed his own people, Hitler killed about 20 million slavs: civilian, children, old men, women, etc, in the camps, along with those slaughtered and burned in their homes. The Germans lost about 10 million as a result of combat, where the Russians lost about 15 million due to combat. Note: the Russian combat deaths are not included with the slaughter of the slavs in the camps and at homeland.

[emissrto]

This Anticipatory repudiation 07:46 / 10:00 "the law of contracts that describes a declaration by one party (the promising party) to a contract, that she does not intend to live up to her obligations under the contract." [wikipedia] 09:09 / 10:00 it follows that the commentator only subverts the culture and customs etc. of the other party (the performing party) to thier political goals. She Explains everyting.

[DiazeSpam]

she gives the raw nerve

[jblacktree]

Her work is kitsch--and her alliances were vile and her appeal is limited to its historical interest, NOT its aesthetic appeal--zilch for me

[bigslick87]

i thought that the crimes against humanity thing was more to do with the whole using concentration camp prisoners as actors rather than making good films was it not? Her films are amazing, but also amazingly German culturally, the place was pretty nationalist at that time, and so that is generally how her subjects are interpreted. But they are also Romantic with the mountains etc. thats a northern European thing.

[openminded1313]

Good interview! I did not realize that she could speak English; in the film about her made in 1993 she spoke only German, and that was translated in subtitles.

[bouncysmile]

careful you dont make too good a movie otherwise you will be accused of crimes against humanity

[andy7666]

Actually, I notice they played down the welcome of the crowd - in the original film there is a thuderous applause with th music.. I guess they wouldn't allow the Nazis to look too good!

[andy7666]

Triumph of the Will has an amazing introduction. Flying above the clouds and the the rapterous welcome.. Awesome!

[thudds]

thanks for uploading, she was an amazing woman, an extremely hardworking genius. I don't believe she deserved the hatred she received.

[56LC]

The new Post WWII Guilt driven PC Gestapo in Germany never tolerated her for never appologizing for her actions during the war. So like so many that were haunted for their roles in the Nazi regime she paid the prize until her death for her past. A true shame, it makes the new Germany no better than Hitler's Germany or Communist Germany later.

[openminded1313]

I would not say that the current Germany is no better than Hitler's Germany or East Germany. It is MUCH better! Still, I agree with you that she did NOT deserve the difficulties that she experienced due to the fact that the side she made movies for lost the war. In later conversations she brought up the fact that the Soviet directors of that same era did not experience the same difficulties as they were on the winner side; albeit with their own tyrant (Marshall Stalin).

[SHRINA17]

I agree with you....she was amazingly talented...way ahead of the times!

[kafkazepam]

these "indiscreet" close-ups of her face and hands...

[kafkazepam]

creepy

[madmonk66]

Obviously the Nazi regime was a twisted and horrific thing. But Hitler used people and deceived them about his real intent. Especially in the early days.

Leni was an amazing filmmaker. Really incredible. I believe her when she says she was simply trying to make the best films she could. The full scope of Hitler's twisted vision was years off remember.

I appreciate her candidness and honesty.

She admits she would not have made the films had she known.

[paristuscany]

I'm Studying Riefenstahl at school and she is a very interesting character. You can love and hate her at the same time. She is controversial as a Nazi sympathiser - fascist aesthetic vs. Feminist pioneer. Personally i marvel her artistic abilities and her film techniques still used today.

[LastCommodore]

Wow, I have followed Riefenstahl's career for years, but I hadn't known about this interview. Thanks for posting.

[pakitrolls]

Mother of modern film my ass,this bitch was a nazi bitch its amazing how the white american media shows her as someone amazing lady is just disturbing.

Rest in Peace though.

[ChildeRolandofGilead]

Hey, retard, did you see the CBC call-letters in the description? It was Canadian media.

[miket1m]

She lived in Germany during the reign of der Third Reich. In America you have Democratic Party and the Republican Party etc.. In Germany at that time you had two parties. The Nazi Party and the farewell party. Get it?

[Seadweller451B]

Zionist swine!!!

[semlacka]

Thank you so much for these clips! This interview is simply great!! She is one amazing person.