Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl, a German director, photographer, and actress, began her career as a dancer and actress, later making her directorial debut with *The Blue Light* (1932), which earned her a Silver Medal at the Venice Film Festival. Her fame is inextricably linked to the Third Reich period, when she was commissioned by the regime to direct her most celebrated and controversial films: *Triumph of the Will* (1935), a documentary on the Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, and *Olympia* (1938), on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Both works were acclaimed for their innovative filming and editing techniques, receiving international awards such as the Grand Prix at the 1937 Paris Exposition and the Mussolini Cup in Venice. After the war, her association with Nazism compromised her film career. She then successfully turned to photography, documenting the Nuba people of Sudan and creating pioneering underwater photography until an advanced age.