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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations: Directed by Leni Riefenstahl. With David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Erwin Blask. The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
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- Documentary, Sport
- Leni Riefenstahl
- 1940-03-08
Hitler invited Riefenstahl to film the 1936 Summer Olympics scheduled to be held in Berlin, a film which Riefenstahl said had been commissioned by the International Olympic Committee. She visited Greece to take footage of the route of the inaugural torch relay and the games' original site at Olympia , where she was aided by Greek photographer ...
Apr 16, 2013 · See footage of national heroes who clebrated life and sport during the war-including footage of the famed African-American Jesse Owens who stood up against Hitler's chastisement to the US for allowing his entry, and who ran into Olympic history winning four gold medals.
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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty: Directed by Leni Riefenstahl. With Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Ferenc Csík. The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
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- Documentary, Sport
- Leni Riefenstahl
- 1940-03-29
Aug 12, 2016 · From Athens to Berlin: The 1936 Olympics and Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia. By: Michael Mackenzie.
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations. Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human...
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After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition.
