[Still from the motion-picture Tiefland": Leni Riefenstahl as flamenco dancer called "Martha"]" – Antique Wall Art
![[Still from the motion-picture Tiefland": Leni Riefenstahl as flamenco dancer called "Martha"]", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c7/c7b5b73903d3-L.webp)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Still from the motion-picture Tiefland": Leni Riefenstahl as flamenco dancer called "Martha"]". An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Still from the motion-picture Tiefland": Leni Riefenstahl as flamenco dancer called "Martha"]"
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Riefenstahl appears here as Martha, a flamenco dancer, in a still from *Tiefland*, a film loosely based on Eugen d'Albert's 1903 opera of the same name. She began the project in the early 1940s, and it was shot in fits and starts over several years before its release in 1954. The production used Romani people held at the Maxglan camp near Salzburg as extras, many of whom were later deported to Auschwitz, a history that now shapes how the film is viewed. The dance scenes were meant to give the story its Spanish setting, and the still captures that stylized, theatrical look.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Film stills 1940-1950. |
| Subjects | In portfolio: Tiefland. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion Pictures; B.I.; Dance--Flamenco; Opera. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,103 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149265 |
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