Tiefland ("Lowlands") is a 1954 West German opera drama film directed, produced, co-written, edited by and starring Leni Riefenstahl, and based on the 1903 eponymous opera composed by Eugen d'Albert to a libretto by Rudolph Lothar based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà. The film co-stars Bernhard Minetti, and is Riefenstahl's last feature film as both director and lead actress.
Tiefland (film)
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda.
Riefenstahl in a 1930s postcard honoring her for the propaganda film Olympia
Riefenstahl (right) in Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925)
Riefenstahl stands near Heinrich Himmler while instructing her camera crew at Nuremberg, 1934.
Riefenstahl and a camera crew stand in front of Hitler's car during the 1934 rally in Nuremberg.