New on Blu-ray: TIEFLAND / LOWLANDS (1954) Directed by and Starring Leni Riefenstahl

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Product Description: In the foothills of the Pyrenees, a Gypsy dancer (Leni Riefenstahl) would find herself the fulcrum between a poor shepherd (Franz Eichberger) that loves her and a greedy land baron (Bernhard Minetti) who covets her. Riefenstahl's take on the Eugen d'Albert opera, her last completed feature as director and actor, had a drawn-out and controversial production spanning the WWII years and only completed after the French returned the confiscated footage.

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New on Blu-ray: THE BLUE LIGHT / DAS BLUE LICHT (1932)

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Product Description: In her directing bow, star Leni Riefenstahl leaned into her "mountain film" image to portray Junta, an athletic and ethereal recluse regarded as a witch by the villagers living below her Dolomite retreat. After a wandering painter (Mathias Wieman) became smitten with her, he trailed her to a mysterious grotto that only she knew how to reach... and the repercussions may destroy more than their budding romance. Beni Führer, Max Holzboer, Martha Mair also star.

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE GREAT LEAP aka THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1926) Starring Leni Riefenstahl

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Product Description: Before she became a celebrated documentarian (and notorious public figure), Leni Riefenstahl was a popular actress, best known for her “mountain films” made by director Arnold Fanck. The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg, 1926) and The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Die weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü, 1929) were awe-inspiring dramas of romance and survival, but her 1927 film The Great Leap (Der große Sprung) was something surprisingly different: a playful romantic comedy set high atop the Dolomotes. Riefenstahl plays an Italian peasant whose simple life is upended when a series of urbanites invade the slopes for a ski vacation. This bubbly comedy (featuring Riefenstahl’s usual on-screen love interest, Luis Trenker) combines slapstick laughs with stunning footage of acrobatic skiing and rock climbing, making it perhaps the most entertaining (if unconventional) entry in the cycle of German mountain films.

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