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Germans plan biopic on Nazi-era film maker Riefenstahl
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 11 - 2007


The life of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman who
directed the most potent Nazi German propaganda films, will itself
become a film under a project announced near Berlin Friday, according to dpa.
German film studio Ufa Fernsehproduktion said it planned to
partner with ZDF German public television and a British company to
co-produce the biopic as a two-part TV special.
Triumph of the Will, her film dramatizing the Nazi Party rally of
1934, and Olympia, her film about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, made the
Nazi aesthetics of mass loyalty and show of muscle seem glamourous.
Though praised as a landmark in film history, Triumph is rarely
screened nowadays. At the museum of Naziism in Nuremberg,
educationists only show it to groups after briefings about the flaws
in its evil message.
Hitler's personal film maker, who died in 2003 at the age of 101,
showed no remorse and claimed she had been non-political. She
practised still photography of muscular Sudanese tribesmen and divers
after the Second World War.
Chief executive Norbert Sauer said at Ufa's Potsdam studio near
Berlin that Ufa was still in final talks with ZDF, but hoped to cast
an actress in the part of Riefenstahl by the end of the year, with
filming next year.
Ufa partnered with ZDF to make another TV movie, The Last Voyage
of the Wilhelm Gustloff, depicting the sinking of a shipload of
German refugees in the Baltic in 1945.
It is set to premiere as a TV special early next year.
Neighbouring eastern European nations view with unease the depiction
of Germans as sufferers during the Second World War, fearing it will
lead to a "revision" of history.


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