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Aurora's Leni asks: Great artist, Nazi sympathizer or both? by Chad Jones

As a dramatic work, Sarah Greenman's Leni about the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, has to juggle history, artistry and, now, discomfiting parallels to our own time. Was Riefenstahl the right artist at the wrong time? Was her extraordinary talent as a filmmaker overshadowed by Hitler and the Nazi party? Or was she a Nazi sympathizer and, consequently, as the show puts it, "a willing architect of Nazi mythology and…

SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 02:50PM on March 17, 2017

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