FILM DIRECTOR

Leni Riefenstahl

1902 - 2003

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Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, producer, writer, editor, photographer and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial personalities in film history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leni Riefenstahl has received more than 4,549,191 page views. Her biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Leni Riefenstahl is the 16th most popular film director (up from 23rd in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Germany (up from 135th in 2019) and the most popular German Film Director.

Leni Riefenstahl is most famous for her work as a filmmaker and photographer. She is best known for her iconic film Triumph of the Will, which documented Adolf Hitler's 1934 rally in Nuremberg.

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  • 74.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Leni Riefenstahl ranks 16 out of 2,041. Before her are Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, and Andrei Tarkovsky. After her are Wim Wenders, Luchino Visconti, François Truffaut, Sergio Leone, Jean-Luc Godard, and Pedro Almodóvar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Leni Riefenstahl ranks 6. Before her are Ruhollah Khomeini, Karl Popper, Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Malenkov, and Paul Dirac. After her are Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, and Talcott Parsons. Among people deceased in 2003, Leni Riefenstahl ranks 3. Before her are Edward Teller, and Katharine Hepburn. After her are Charles Bronson, Heydar Aliyev, Idi Amin, Robert K. Merton, Alija Izetbegović, Gregory Peck, Johnny Cash, Barry White, and Maurice Gibb.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leni Riefenstahl ranks 119 out of 7,253. Before her are Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Walter Benjamin (1892), Charles the Fat (839), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), and Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845). After her are Novalis (1772), Wim Wenders (1945), Augustus II the Strong (1670), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Leopold I of Belgium (1790), and Michael Schumacher (1969).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Leni Riefenstahl ranks 1. After her are Wim Wenders (1945), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Michael Haneke (1942), Werner Herzog (1942), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), F. W. Murnau (1888), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Roland Emmerich (1955), Max Ophüls (1902), and Margarethe von Trotta (1942).

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