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TONY ORTEGA
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Former Scientology film director Mitch Brisker has more eye-opening photos for us that he took on the church’s movie sets, but first we need to set up these new images with some backstory. (See his previous photos here and here.)
Five years ago, we got very lucky when one of our readers tracked down an actual copy of the screenplay that L. Ron Hubbard and Leni Riefenstahl worked on together in 1960, an intended remake of Riefenstahl’s popular 1932 Alpine fantasy, Das blaue Licht (‘The Blue Light’).
Only a little had been previously written about this strange collaboration between two of the 20th century’s most infamous characters, but we were fortunate to get a lot of hitherto unknown information about it for a lengthy piece at The Daily Beast.
After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he tapped Riefenstahl to make two of the films most associated with the Nazi movement, 1935’s Triumph of the Will that captured a rally at Nuremberg and 1938’s Olympia, about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. After the war, Riefenstahl was held in internment camps for three years, and after her release she fought a constant battle over her reputation, claiming that she had been naive about the Nazis and was not part of Hitler’s cabal.
In 1960, one of the people hoping she could make a comeback was a young Canadian film editor named Philip Hudsmith, who tried to raise enough money so Riefenstahl could remake The Blue Light and recapture her pre-war success. Initially, Hudsmith had persuaded W
. Somerset Maugham to write the screenplay, but the aging writer pulled out when it became clear that the press was still quick to bring up Riefenstahl’s connection to the Nazis.
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[/td]Five years ago, we got very lucky when one of our readers tracked down an actual copy of the screenplay that L. Ron Hubbard and Leni Riefenstahl worked on together in 1960, an intended remake of Riefenstahl’s popular 1932 Alpine fantasy, Das blaue Licht (‘The Blue Light’).
Only a little had been previously written about this strange collaboration between two of the 20th century’s most infamous characters, but we were fortunate to get a lot of hitherto unknown information about it for a lengthy piece at The Daily Beast.
After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he tapped Riefenstahl to make two of the films most associated with the Nazi movement, 1935’s Triumph of the Will that captured a rally at Nuremberg and 1938’s Olympia, about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. After the war, Riefenstahl was held in internment camps for three years, and after her release she fought a constant battle over her reputation, claiming that she had been naive about the Nazis and was not part of Hitler’s cabal.
In 1960, one of the people hoping she could make a comeback was a young Canadian film editor named Philip Hudsmith, who tried to raise enough money so Riefenstahl could remake The Blue Light and recapture her pre-war success. Initially, Hudsmith had persuaded W
. Somerset Maugham to write the screenplay, but the aging writer pulled out when it became clear that the press was still quick to bring up Riefenstahl’s connection to the Nazis.
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How racist were Scientology’s ‘tech’ films? They got help from Hitler’s favorite filmmaker
Former Scientology film director Mitch Brisker has more eye-opening photos for us that he took on the church’s movie sets, but first we need to set up these new images with some backstory.
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