Das blaue Licht
(The Blue Light)
Screening on Film
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
With Leni Riefenstahl, Guiseppe Becce.
Germany, 1932, 16mm, black & white, 80 min.
In German.
With Leni Riefenstahl, Guiseppe Becce.
Germany, 1932, 16mm, black & white, 80 min.
In German.
After appearing in several films of the “mountain” genre produced during the Weimar era by then popular director Arnold Fanck, Riefenstahl directed her first feature in a similar romantic and pictorialist manner. Shot on location in the Alps, the film emphasizes a Germanic mystical union with nature, a vision which so impressed Hitler that he offered Riefenstahl the opportunity to make films for the Nazi party.