A silent & early sonorized movie from 1932, where Leni Riefenstahl is actress, screenwriter and director. The movie has a rare beauty that lingers through the years. The plot is a fairy-tale one : a young and lonely girl mistaken by her neighbours for a witch is genuinely fascinated by the mysterious blue light emerging from the magic mountain; she meets and befriends a mountaineer equally interested in the secret, but for quite different reasons, and so the drama begins. The story is in fact the collision between the maiden's free soul and civilisation, which seems to specially appeal Riefenstahl's independent spirit. It is better that each one makes an opinion as one pleases after watching this visually beautiful movie. Based upon Gustav Renker's "Bergkristall" (The Glass Mountain). A sportive Leni climbs the ridges by herself.
Review of The Blue Light
