Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl with Adolf Hitler
Being sorry isn’t nearly enough, but I can’t tear myself apart or destroy myself. It’s so terrible. I’ve suffered anyway for over half a century and it will never end, until I die. It’s such an incredible burden, that to say ‘sorry’… it’s inadequate, it expresses too little.
— Leni Riefenstahl, in 1993, commenting on her work with the Nazi Party
Nosferatu (1922)