Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2051324 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-27
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 30 pages

Customer Reviews

Fascinating
What an amazing woman - her life is truly a triumph of the will. Whether one believes her stand on Nazism wholly or only partially,one still has little option ultimately but to admire her.

The testimony of a wonderful woman. Truth is supreme!
Leni Riefenstahl is a truly remarkable woman. Her talents and bravery have been fuly demonstrated in this superb creation.

The contents of this book are a marvel and testimonay to a life dedicated to the pursuit of artistic excellence.

Leni is an ideal role-model to moern youth. Her willpower and dedication show though to their true strengths in this fascintaing book whcih journeys through the life of an artistic genius.

All those with any artistic feelings MUST simply read this book!

very, very, very, very good....
What a neat, neat book. Over 600 pages and I read it easily in a few days, then lent it to two people who also read it within a few days. Obviously, almost impossible to put down... And the book starts getting REALLY exciting when she is in her 60's, travelling through Africa. While this woman certainly has a large ego, and HAS to be embellishing a few stories (for example, almost every man she meets seem to immediately fall madly in love with her and attempt suicide upon being rejected by her), she is not anywhere close to being the monster she is constantly portrayed as. Her argument that she was simply an artist creating documentaries with no political interest at all seems pretty reasonable after reading this book. The woman is entirely self-absorbed: not necessarily a huge insult to an artist. And if the celebration of beauty (even physical beauty) is an exclusively nazi ideal, call me a nazi too.