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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)

Documentary
Release Date: 1938, June 2
Directors: Leni Riefenstahl
Countries: Germany
Production: Olympia-Film GmbH
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Glenn Morris, Daniel Barrow, Gustav Schäfer, Jack Beresford, Alois Hudec, Cornelius Johnson, Rolf Wernicke, Sheigo Arai, Albert Bachmann, Ralf Berzsenyi, Ferenc Csík

Overview:

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.

Keywords:

woman director sports nationalism nsdap (nazi party) nazi national socialism national socialist party olympic games poetic documentary olympia gymnastics