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Article: At 100, German filmmaker still stirs enigmatic cocktail of emotions.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2002
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Byline: Jane Sumner
By the time she turns 100 on Thursday, Leni Riefenstahl will have outlived a lot of critics but not the controversy that follows Hitler's favorite filmmaker like a yappy dachshund pup.
Nearly killed two years ago in a helicopter crash, the self-willed superwoman plans to celebrate her centenary with her first finished motion picture in almost 50 years, "Underwater Impressions." Or as London's daily The Independent snippily headlined: "Leni Riefenstahl Makes Final Attempt to Bury Nazi Past with Film on Fish."
It's been 56 years since the Saturday Evening Post called the athletic fraulein a "Nazi pinup girl," but the cloud ...