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Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (1938)
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Leni Riefenstahl (writer)
Release Date:
8 March 1940 (USA)
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The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins
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Chariots Of Fire Is Top Olympics Movie
(From WENN. 17 August 2008, 6:25 PM, PDT)
Farrow: "Spielberg Could Become Leni Riefenstahl of Olympic Games"
(From WENN. 30 March 2007)
(From WENN. 17 August 2008, 6:25 PM, PDT)
Farrow: "Spielberg Could Become Leni Riefenstahl of Olympic Games"
(From WENN. 30 March 2007)
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Highly original for its time, great use of camerawork
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Olympia - Fest der Völker - Erster Film von den Olympischen Spielen Berlin 1936 (Germany) (poster title)
Olympia 1. Teil - Götter des Stadions
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (International: English title) (literal title)
Olympia: The Film of the XI. Olympic Games Berlin, 1936 (UK)
The Olympiad (USA)
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Olympia 1. Teil - Götter des Stadions
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (International: English title) (literal title)
Olympia: The Film of the XI. Olympic Games Berlin, 1936 (UK)
The Olympiad (USA)
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Sweden:121 min | USA:111 min | UK:66 min
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Leni Riefenstahl first contacted the biggest German film studio, Ufa, in order for them to finance the film. Friedrich A. Mainz, the studio head refused because of cost, so she contacted Tobis-Filmkunst who agreed to finance the film and put up ½ million Reichmarks upfront (three times the cost of a standard film at the time). The contract was only signed in December 1936, four months after the end of the Olympic Games.
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Referenced in Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
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Olympische Hymnne
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This is a brilliant sports documentary - the experimentation with camera angles was revolutionary at the time and the pole vault sequence at night is one of my favourite sequences in a film ever. The athletes are portrayed as superhuman, so in this sense the film is elitist and Nietzschean, but this is certainly not a racist film, politics does not play an explicit role, although one could argue that the deification of athletes (they are shown in close-up, alone, to contrast with the watching masses) promotes the idea that some men are greater than others. A fascinating film, and a definite progression from the standard documentary format of Das Triumph des Willens.