Impressionen unter Wasser (Underwater Impressions aka Impressions of the deep) is a documentary film released in 2002. It was directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
After the premiere of her film Tiefland in 1954, for decades it was generally thought this would be Riefenstahl's last film. However she surprised the world a few days before her 100th birthday, when Impressionen unter Wasser (45 minutes, with an introduction by Riefenstahl) premiered in Berli...
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Impressionen unter Wasser (Underwater Impressions aka Impressions of the deep) is a documentary film released in 2002. It was directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
After the premiere of her film Tiefland in 1954, for decades it was generally thought this would be Riefenstahl's last film. However she surprised the world a few days before her 100th birthday, when Impressionen unter Wasser (45 minutes, with an introduction by Riefenstahl) premiered in Berlin 48 years after Tiefland.
Impressionen unter Wasser is the final result of 30 years of underwater cinematography. In 1983 she described her intentions for the eventual film; "Underwater films are either scientific, like Jacques Cousteau's, or sensational, like the Hollywood shark films. But there are none like this one we plan."
Segments of her extensive marine footage were first shown to the public in the 1993 documentary, The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl which followed her recent expedition.
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