Riefenstahl back in limelight

Frankfurt - The German photographer and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, notorious for her artistic collaboration with Adolf Hitler…

Frankfurt - The German photographer and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, notorious for her artistic collaboration with Adolf Hitler, stood in the limelight once again yesterday despite her 98 years.

Looking remarkably well-preserved, and displaying a sense of humour, she presented a new illustrated biography of her work entitled Leni Riefenstahl -Five Lives at the Frankfurt international book fair.

The former dancer and actress has been eternally dogged by the fact that, at Hitler's request, she made the propaganda film, Will to Triumph, of a Nuremberg rally of his Nazi party in 1934.