DAS BLAUE LICHT
THE BLUE LIGHT
Leni Riefenstahl / Germany / 1932 / 85 min / Black and white
At her debut behind the camera, Leni Riefenstahl, a former actress for Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Arnold Fanck, continues in the footsteps of her teachers, creating a film perfectly attributable to the genre of the mountain film, while making a decisive step towards a symbolic reworking of the typical Alpine setting. The story of the beautiful Junta, misunderstood by both her boorish neighbours and by the refined artist from the city, offers itself as a naive but fascinating parable of a feeling of Nature which in that period and context reached an awareness that was difficult to replicate. Images of refined beauty evoke the magic of a theatre that is both natural and symbolic - that of Monte Cristallo - within which is consummated the tragic misunderstanding between its unknowable mysteries and the violence of man, who, even without understanding them, does not stop the fatal looting.
Leni Riefenstahl
Born in Berlin in 1902, she died in 2003 after a long and controversial life, which saw her first as an actress associated with Fanck e Trenker, and then a female pioneer in film, a regime director under Hitler's Nazi party, and finally a world-famous photographer and author of celebrated reportages on marine biology and traditional African cultures.
Credits
Subject Gustav RenkerCinematography Walter Riml Hans Schneeberger, Heinz von JaworskyEditing Leni RiefenstahlMusic Giuseppe BecceMain cast Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Beni Führer, Max Holzboer, Martha Mair, Franz MaldaceaProducer Leni RiefenstahlProduction company Leni Riefenstahl-Produktion
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