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5 days ago · Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles.It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters.
3 days ago · Director: Leni Riefenstahl. Olympia (1938) A watershed film in the filming of sports, Leni Riefenstahl’s two-part record of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin is an infamous piece of Nazi propaganda – as were the Games for which they act as a record.
5 days ago · Leni Riefenstahl’s two-part documentary, chronicling the final games held before World War II, is a potent reminder of the power of the Olympic Movement — to whitewash human rights abuses ...
3 days ago · The Totenehrung (honouring of dead) at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.SS leader Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler and SA leader Viktor Lutze (from L to R) on the stone terrace; from Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl.. Nazism made extensive use of the cinema throughout its history. Though it was a relatively new technology, the Nazi Party established a film department soon after it rose ...
2 days ago · In 1938, German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl went to Hollywood to find American distribution for her award-winning film, Olympia.Only one studio head would meet with her: Walt Disney.
5 days ago · Maischberger-Produktion „Riefenstahl“ feiert Weltpremiere in Venedig. Bei den Internationalen Filmfestspielen von Venedig stellen Andres Veiel und Sandra Maischberger ihre Dokumentation über die umstrittene NS-Filmemacherin Leni Riefenstahl persönlich vor. Deutscher Kinostart ist am 31. Oktober. In etwas mehr als einem Monat beginnen die 81.
3 days ago · A troubling reality for idealistic myths about Olympic history is that the first opening ceremony on a scale like today’s was the 1936 Berlin Games – “Hitler’s Olympics”. Berlin’s ...
1 day ago · Spectators arguably owe the grand scale of today’s opening ceremonies to cold war rivalry and the ideological struggles around the Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 Olympics – where each ...
2 days ago · At the 1924 Paris Games, the first to be extensively filmed, national teams marched, dignitaries gave speeches, and carrier pigeons were released into the air. A troubling reality for idealistic ...
5 days ago · Four Filmstiftung-backed productions have been invited to screen the 81st Venice Film Festival (28 August to 7 September), with two of them in the Competition.
