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Loom
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The Whiteboard Jungle
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Mar 12, 2007 - 12:10pm PT
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Has anyone ever seen the silent movie The White Hell of Pitz Palu?
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Brian in SLC
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mar 12, 2007 - 02:15pm PT
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Triumph of the Will...beautifully chilling to watch. Scary stuff.
I have a copy of Kampf in Schnee und Eis published in the early 30's. I recall it was interesting as it shows folks front pointing with crampons up a steep glacier (not step cutting).
Her bio won the Boardman Tasker award. Audrey Salkeld's "A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl."
-Brian in SLC
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cintune
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Penn's Woods
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Mar 12, 2007 - 04:46pm PT
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She was just an actor in the White Hell of Pitz Palu, but in 1932 she wrote and directed a kind of a mountaineering film called The Blue Light.
http://www.riefenstahl.org/director/1932/
Spoiler from Wikipedia:
"On full moon nights, a crack in a prominent local mountain admits the moon's light and illuminates a grotto filled with beautiful crystals. This place of indescribable beauty, glowing with magical blue light, is a sacred space for Junta. The glowing blue light, shining from afar, to the village below, is also what has attracted the village's young men, none of whom were ever able to reach it before falling off the mountain's treacherous slope.
"A man from the city, a painter, traveling through the village, falls in love with Junta. He follows her to the cabin she shares with the shepherd boy, and decides to stay for a while. The man speaks only German, and Junta only Italian, so their communication is fragmentary. All is pleasant and good, and very chaste, until the next full moon night, when the man sees Junta climbing up the mountain. He follows her, actually reaching the beautiful grotto, and finds Junta in a state of ecstasy among the crystals. Perceiving these thousands of crystals to be a source of immense wealth for Junta and the villagers, the man immediate runs down to inform the townsfolk, and tells them of the correct route to reach the grotto. Junta does not realize that he is doing this, until the next day, when she finds some of her crystals on the path to the village, as well as some dropped tools. Rushing up to the grotto, she finds it completely barren of crystals, raped by the greedy villagers. Meanwhile, the villagers and the painter are living it up and celebrating. Junta is totally devastated at this rape of the sacred grotto, and falls to her death."
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Gene
climber
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Mar 12, 2007 - 05:01pm PT
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A very talented tool.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 12, 2007 - 05:16pm PT
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Hey, everybody loves Nazis.
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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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Mar 13, 2007 - 10:12pm PT
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Thanks for the link Anders.
Isn't she most often noted for the film on the um, like 38' Olympics, “Olympia” a big production propaganda piece bankrolled by the Third Reich?
What's more, notwithstanding her affiliation and intense nationalist fealty, I understood Olympia to be something of a pioneering masterpiece of filmmaking including magnificent athleticism caught with a very compelling eye -quite worth a look.
‘Been wanting to check that out.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 14, 2007 - 01:12am PT
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Her two best known films are Triumph of Will, which in effect glorified the Nazi party and Germany at one of the party conferences in Nuremberg, and Olympia, about the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. (The one where Jesse Owens won a lot of gold.)
There's a movie about her, called the Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, made in Germany in 1993. The title pretty much sums it up.
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jstan
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Mar 14, 2007 - 10:03am PT
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I picked up a copy of Wonderful Horrible when VCR's were being phased out. When it was made she was in her nineties. All history aside, an extremely sharp and powerful person.
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