Leni Riefenstahl was considered to be Adolf Hitlers favourite film director.Her directorial début, Blue Light 1932, caught Hitlers attention and he requested that she make a short film of the Nazi partys 1933 Nuremberg rally, Victory Of Faith 1934. A year later, he commissioned her to make a featurelength film of the 1934 rally this film became Triumph Of The Will 1935. It has been described as an impressive spectacle of Germanys adherence to Hitler, a Nazi masterpiece and a masterpiece of romanticised propaganda, but nevertheless has been hailed as a great work despite its glorification of the 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally and the political message of the Nazis. Equally famous, and considered far less political, was her coverage of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin the fourhour epic Olympia 1938 offered a glorious view of Olympic athletes that remains powerful and popular.

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