- "One step forward, please, Mein Führer."
- ―The Film Director to Adolf Hitler[src]
In 1938, a Film Director documented Adolf Hitler's appearance at a bookburning rally held in Berlin, Germany.
Biography[]
The film director attended the Berlin bookburning rally in 1938. She attempted to film Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and other members of the German High Command but was frustrated in her attempts to get the men to follow her instruction, asking Hitler to step forward only for the rest of the Nazis to do the same, making Hitler barely visible much to Indiana Jones' amusement.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- "No more propaganda films!"
- ―Leni Riefenstahl[src]
The Film Director was portrayed by the late veteran German actress Suzanne Roquette in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.[2] Although Roquette's scenes were filmed, they were ultimately cut from the final version of the film.[3] However, they were retained in Rob MacGregor's novelization of the film.[1]
Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker who inspired the Last Crusade Film Director.
The Film Director character was inspired by the late Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler's official biographer, Riefenstahl was noted for her work on Nazi propaganda films such as Triumph des Willens and Olympia. The Film Director character was identified as Riefenstahl in Jeffrey Boam's earlier drafts of the script[4] and was formally included in the New Gods for Old companion historical lecture.[5] Despite the historical Riefenstahl's reputation as a Nazi sympathizer, both director Steven Spielberg and writer George Lucas admired Riefenstahl's filmmaking ability.[3]