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Article: Will Jodie Whitewash Leni? Hitler's filmmaker is Foster's fixation.(Jodi Foster making a film about Leni Riefenstahl)
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- The Nation
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- April 2, 2001
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What is it about Leni Riefenstahl? Jodie Foster, the Academy Award-winning actress, is currently developing a movie about the brilliant and ire-inspiring German director, whose 1935 film Triumph of the Will--made at Adolf Hitler's request--has been widely denounced for glorifying the Nazi Party. Foster plans to both produce and star in the film, which she predicts will be the most challenging of her career.
"There is no other woman in the twentieth century who has been so admired and so vilified simultaneously," Foster said in a statement released by her publicist. In an earlier interview, Foster anticipated that she, too, would be vilified. "I'm going to catch ...