Rent Olympia: Festival of Nations (1938)
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1h 40min
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- Synopsis:
Listed in Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Movies", Leni Riefenstahl's ground-breaking documentary on the 1936 Summer Olympics is a remarkable piece of cinematic history, a technical and artistic triumph. Employing advanced filming technics which have now become industry standard for sports coverage, Riefenstahl was commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a celebration of the human body and its movements. Despite its acclaim, the film also attracted strong criticism for what was viewed as its promotion of Nazi ideologies towards athletic prowess and the Aryan race but regardless of its political context, the events on the track were no less awe-inspiring, not least the exploits of black-American Jesse Owens winning four gold medals as a presumably indifferent Hitler looked on. - Actors:
- David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Erwin Blask, Sulo Bärlund, Ibolya Csák, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Philip Edwards, Donald Finlay, Tilly Fleischer, Wilhelm Frick, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Ernest Harper, Karl Hein, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Volmari Iso-Hollo, Cornelius Johnson, Matti Järvinen
- Directors:
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Producers:
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Writers:
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Aka:
- Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
- Studio:
- Arena Visual Entertainment
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest, Sports & Sport Films
- Collections:
- A Brief History of the Summer Olympics on Film, A History of Sports Films (Winter Edition), Introducing the Thesping Olympians, Lions on the Lido, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Cannes Palme d'Or Winners
- Countries:
- Germany
- Awards:
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Not the original version - Olympia: Festival of Nations review by JC
This is a cut and reduced version of the original two films. A full version has been released by Pathfinder.
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