Audrey Salkeld

Praise for A Portrait Of Leni Riefenstahl

A fascinating and scholarly study of one of the most influential film-makers of this century

Irish Independent

She expertly marshals every source, from the journals of the famous (Goebbels, Speer) to the letters, diaries and affidavits of Riefenstahl's one-time friends and film colleagues

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

Where Salkeld excels is in the gradual, painstaking construction of a cumulative portrait...Indeed, by the end of the book, I confess I felt something I had never dreamt I could feel. I felt sympathy for Leni Riefen ...

Gilbert Adair, Independent

A fascinating and scholarly study of one of the most influential film-makers of this century

Irish Independent

She expertly marshals every source, from the journals of the famous (Goebbels, Speer) to the letters, diaries and affidavits of Riefenstahl's one-time friends and film colleagues

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

Where Salkeld excels is in the gradual, painstaking construction of a cumulative portrait...Indeed, by the end of the book, I confess I felt something I had never dreamt I could feel. I felt sympathy for Leni Riefen ...

Gilbert Adair, Independent

A fascinating and scholarly study of one of the most influential film-makers of this century

Irish Independent

She expertly marshals every source, from the journals of the famous (Goebbels, Speer) to the letters, diaries and affidavits of Riefenstahl's one-time friends and film colleagues

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

Where Salkeld excels is in the gradual, painstaking construction of a cumulative portrait...Indeed, by the end of the book, I confess I felt something I had never dreamt I could feel. I felt sympathy for Leni Riefen ...

Gilbert Adair, Independent