A | B |
dancing | Leni's first career |
Lake Constance | Place where Leni went for dancing lessons in 1923 |
Munich | Leni had her first solo dance recital here |
Berlin | This is where Leni had her second dance recitial |
KorperKultur | Cult of the Body movement that emphasised physical fitness and beauty of the body |
Prague | Leni injured her kneecap while dancing here |
U-Bahn | Leni saw a poster advertising the film Mountain of Destiny |
Fanck | Film director of mountain genre films |
Holy Mountain | The first mountain genre film Leni starred in |
Das Blau Licht | The first film in which Leni starred, directed, wrote |
Reichsfilmkammer | The State Film Agency set up by Goebbels to control the film industry |
Volksgemainschaft | People's community - the promotion of culture that supported the Nazi ideals |
Goebbels | Head of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry |
Censorship | control of media |
Sportpalast | where the Nuremberg Nazi rallies were held |
Nuremberg | The city where the Nazi Party held its rallies |
Victory of Faith | The film created to celebrate the 1933 Nazi Party Rally |
Triumph of the Will | The film created to celebrate the 1934 Nazi Party Rally |
Olympia | The film created to record the 1936 Berlin Olympics |
Carl Diem | Secretary-General of the organising committee of the Berlin Olympic Games |
Festival of the People | The title of the first part of Olympia |
Festival of Beauty | The title of the second part of Olympia |
thirty-two | Number of cameramen used by Leni to shoot Triump of the Will |
camera pits | Dug for Leni to use to create unique images of the Olympics |
aerial | Shots used by Leni to create innovative visuals in her film |
German Film Prize | Won by Triumph of the Will in 1935 |
Golden Lion Award | Won by Olympia in the Venice Biennale film festival |
Olympic Gold Medal | Awarded to Olympia by the International Olympic Committee in 1939 |
paternalist | The image of Hitler create by Riefenstahl in Olympia |
benevolent | Image of Hitler created by Riefenstahl in Triumph of the Will |
Reinhardt | Theatricl director with whom Leni signed a contract to dance in his theatres |
propaganda | Historians Hinton and Sontag believe Leni's films were created with this in mind |
editing | The key stage Leni used to create her masterpieces |
1935 | The year Leni directed a film about the German army: Day of Freedom- Our Armed Forces |
1932 | The year Leni attended a Nazi Party rally in Berlin |
letter | Leni sent this to Hitler after the 1932 Nazi Party in Berlin |
Horumersiel | Place on the Baltic Coast where Leni met Hitler personally |
Mein Kampf | Book that Leni carried with her and annotated |
Hitler | Leni had a portrait of this person in her room |
Greenland | Place where Leni was filming when the first wave of Nazi violence erupted |
concerns | Leni voiced these when she met Hitler in 1933 |
commentary | Triumph of the Will does not have this even though it is a documentary |
five | number of months it took Leni to edit Triumph of the Will |
speeches | Leni selected sections of these to include in Triumph of the Will to emphasise Hitler's character |
Owens | The black athelete who focuses in Olympia |