The Blue Light (1932 film)

The Blue Light German Das blaue Licht is a blackandwhite 1932 film written and directed by Leni Riefenstahl and Bla Balzs, with uncredited scripting by Carl Mayer. In Riefenstahls film version, the witch, Junta, played by Riefenstahl, is intended to be a sympathetic character. Filming took place in the Brenta Dolomites, in Ticino, Switzerland, and Sarntal, Italy.

Junta lives largely in solitude except for the company of a young shepherd boy in the tranquility of the mountains surrounding the village. She plays in the hills and woodlands, as a naive, free spirit. She is simple and innocent, but also seems something of a mystic. She loves to climb and clamber over the steep, difficult faces of local mountains.On full moon nights, a crack in a prominent local mountain admits the moons light and illuminates a grotto filled with beautiful crystals. This place of indescribable beauty, glowing with magical blue light, is a sacred space for Junta. The glowing blue light, shining from afar, to the village below, is also what has attracted the villages young men, none of whom ever reached it before falling off the mountains treacherous slope. ........

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