THE 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ISSEI International Society for the Study of European Ideas in cooperation with the University of Cyprus Olympia Film: the Olympic Narrative, Katerina Zisimopoulou Doctorate Candidate, Architecture School, National Technical University of Athens (Metsovion) 49, Lazaraki Street, 16674, Glyfada, Greece Email: (He)Leni’s Myth and the Ancient Greek Beauty Ideal kzisimopoulou@gmail.com My research interest in the theme “The Challenge of Ancient 'Feminism'” focuses on a particular modern Woman inspired by – or even, one could argue, obsessed by – Untraditional Greek Drama heroines: namely, the famous and ambiguous Leni Riefenstahl. Riefenstahl, the German film director of the Nazi regime and a personal friend of Hitler himself, was perceived as a mythical woman who built her whole personality and film-work on the ancient Greek Beauty Ideal of body and movement. In this respect, the objective of the 1936 Olympic Games to manipulate the narrative of the Games and the body beautiful in order to spread the interwar period Nazi Introduction