Leni riefenstahl's affection is the East African Plateau.

1956, Rafenstar, who experienced a nightmare for ten years after the war, decided to visit this mysterious and vast African continent because of the influence of the snow on Kilimanjaro in For Who the Bell Tolls.

1962, Rafenstar became the first white woman who was chartered by the Sudanese government to live in the Nuba tribe in her own country. Since then, she has taken many photos showing local aborigines and recorded their life full of strength, beauty and primitive atmosphere. In this process, she not only rediscovered her own world, but also forged a profound friendship with the simple Nuba people. 1965, she began to shoot a color documentary about the Nuba people, recording a primitive civilization on the verge of collapse.

1974 Rafenstar, who loved sports since childhood, was fascinated by diving. She was 72 years old that year, far beyond the age requirement for this sport. In order to get the diving qualification certificate, she lied about her real age of 20. She really looks 20 years younger than her real age. After obtaining the diving certificate, she dived into the bottom of the sea again and again and took a lot of beautiful photos and documentary materials showing the wonders of the sea. It was not until she was 94 years old that she dived into the sea near Cocoa Island to photograph sharks.

1999, Rafenstar decided to go to Sudan again, hoping to visit his long-lost friends in Nuba and take photos and documentary materials. In 2000, after repeated consultations with the Sudanese government, she and a German photographer finally arrived in the Sudanese capital, accompanied by a Sudanese tour guide, and went to the Nuba Mountains. The Nuba people who have forged a deep friendship with her are eagerly looking forward to her arrival. In 200 1 year, due to the outbreak of civil war in Sudan, she and her entourage left the Nuba Mountains by helicopter. Unfortunately, their helicopter suddenly crashed at El Obeid airport in northern Sudan; Fortunately, they were injured, but they survived.

On August 22nd, 2002, in order to celebrate her100th birthday, Rafenstein showed her newly completed documentary "Underwater Impression", which is a 50-minute film that recorded the wonderful scenes she captured during more than 2,000 dives in the Indian Ocean. Rivesta has also made other documentaries, but she is mainly engaged in the creation of photography works on the African continent and the Indian Ocean, and has published four collections of photography works: Nuba People (1972), Coral Garden (1978), My Africa (1982) and Underwater.

On September 8, 2003, Lenny Refenstar, who had just celebrated the birthday of 10 1, died in an apartment in Germany. Her apartment is located in a forest on the outskirts of Munich. In her later years, Riefenstahl was accompanied by her boyfriend Lester K, who was 40 years younger than her. He was not only a companion of Rivenstar in his later years, but also helped her realize her long-cherished wish of making the beautiful Greek myth Penthesilea into a movie. With the death of Riventhal, her wish came to nothing.

Everything doesn't mean anything to Raffenstahl anymore. After 60 years of exile, she has stepped into the limit of human life, and the next time belongs to God instead of art ... A hatred can last for 60 years, perhaps because it is mixed with fear. Film critic Richard Coles said frankly: "That's because Victory of Will is so good; Plus, her style; Besides, she is a woman, a beautiful woman. "

Raffenstahl's story puts forward a proposition for human art that can never be answered: beauty and non-beauty, crime and non-crime. When they are intertwined, how should they be defined and evaluated? Do the flowers grown from poisonous thorns have the right to have independent fragrance and color? For it, can we appreciate and elaborate it simply from the aesthetic point of view? Or will it always be a rose of sin?