Hitler’s Filmmaker: A Biography of Leni Riefenstahl

Steven Bach, author of Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend, offers a stunning new biography of one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and controversial figures, known as “Hitler’s filmmaker“, Leni Riefenstahl. In his superbly written Leni: The Life And Work of Leni Riefenstahl, Bach debates the moral intricacies of this artist working under the Nazi regime, and presents evidence that Riefenstahl was herself, part Jewish.