TieflandREMIX by Manel Bayo

Trailer for Manel Bayo’s remix of Leni Riefenstahl’s Tiefland

(Source: youtube.com)

Riefenstahl started filming Tiefland in Spain in 1940, but forced by war events soon shifted her work to the Alps, in Germany in the Karwendel and in Italy in the Rosengarten of the Dolomites, as well as the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. In 1941, Goebbels had complained about the “waste of money”, and one year later called it a “rat’s nest of entanglements”. Problems were compounded by Riefenstahl’s depression and other ailments, poor weather, accidents, and the difficulty of getting actors and staff organized during the war. Eventually, at a cost of about 8.5 million Reichsmark, Tiefland was the most expensive b/w movie produced in Nazi Germany. After the bombing of the Babelsberg studios in Berlin, the Barrandov Studios in Prague were used to further the work, and by the time the war came to the end, Riefenstahl was in the editing and synchronization process at Kitzbühl.After the war, the film was confiscated and kept by French authorities for several years, but eventually returned to her. Four reels of film were missing when Riefenstahl received the film, notably the scenes shot in Spain. Despite efforts she failed to retrieve the missing footage. After its final editing, the movie was released in 1954.

Leni Riefenstahl in Manel Bayo’s Tiefland REMIX