Chastek Blawg

Chastek Library will be open extended hours for finals, every day from 8am - 10pm, for law students only, beginning Monday, November 30 and ending Thursday, December 17. The library will be closing at 5pm on Friday, December 18 and will remain closed to all students until Tuesday, January 19, 2021*. There will be no student access to the library or law school until the library reopens on January 19*, 2021. If you need reference assistance, please contact a librarian .   For more library hours, please click here .     *post has been updated with the correct reopen date: 11/18/2020

  Law reVIEW is a blog series dedicated to investigating and reviewing both popular and documentary films in the Chastek Library film collection.   THE WONDERFUL, HORRIBLE LIFE OF LENI RIEFENSTAHL (1993)   Directed by Ray M ü ller, this documentary does a deep dive into the life of Leni Riefenstahl, the propagandist behind the award-winning documentary, Olympia, and Adolf Hitler’s immensely successful Triumph of the Will .   As a young woman, Riefenstahl began her career in film in front of the camera starring in several successful silent films before moving behind the camera as one of the few women directing during the time of the German Reich . A favorite director of the German leader, Adolf Hitler, Riefenstahl was in close contact with the F ü hrer during the making of several propaganda films that are now considered as having been essential to the carrying out of his Final Solution .   However, throughout the documentary, Riefenstahl maintains her innocence, even