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Sarah Jilani

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485 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And so my cameraman took roller skates to make this with roller skates, moving.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And that gives it life.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And later, in my cutting room, it was the most difficult work of my life.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And I was 18 years...

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

hours, day and night, to think always what I can do that is interesting.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

It took Riefenstahl seven months to edit the two-hour film.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

The result was Triumph of the Will, a title apparently suggested by Hitler.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

In 1972, the BBC's Keith Dewhurst asked Riefenstahl about their relationship.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Oh, look, I wasn't afraid.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

He was very natural.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

He spoke like another person to me.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

and only about my work.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

So it was not difficult to speak with him.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

He had never spoken about things that I don't understand.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And naturally, in this time, he was for me a very important person, and I was proud that he had such confidence in me.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

But the film was deeply controversial.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

While some admired the artistry, it was also condemned as glorifying a regime that would go on to be responsible for millions of deaths and for portraying a genocidal dictator as a godlike saviour.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Here's the academic George Steiner, who escaped the Holocaust, speaking in 1992.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

She was an eye that was both a mirror of the horror and a creator of its veneer.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

The criticism was put to Riefenstahl by Dennis Chewy on the BBC in 1976.