Actress Jodie Foster plans to produce and star in a movie about a German filmmaker who made a documentary glorifying the Third Reich. Foster’s announcement regarding her project on Leni Riefenstahl came days after a German company said it is also making a film about the director of “Triumph of the Will,” a 1934 documentary that is considered a cinematic landmark. “There is no other woman of the 20th century who has been so admired and vilified simultaneously,” said Foster of Riefenstahl, who is 97.
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