Larry talks to author Steven Bach about the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," Leni Riefenstahl, one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. In his new biography, Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl (Knopf), Bach reveals the truths and lies behind this gifted woman's lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed she knew nothing of the Holocaust and denied her complicity with the criminal regime she both used and sanctified. In this story of huge talent and huger ambition, Bach probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity.
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