Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Original title: Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
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The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
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David Albritton
- Self - High Jump, USA
- (uncredited)
Arvo Askola
- Self - 10000 Metres, FIN
- (uncredited)
Jack Beresford
- Self - Carries British Flag
- (uncredited)
Erwin Blask
- Self - Hammer Throw, German
- (uncredited)
Sulo Bärlund
- Self - Shot Put, Finland
- (uncredited)
Ibolya Csák
- Self - High Jump, Hungary
- (uncredited)
Glenn Cunningham
- Self
- (uncredited)
Philip Edwards
- Self - 800 Metres, Canada
- (uncredited)
Donald Finlay
- Self - 110m Hurdles, GB
- (uncredited)
Tilly Fleischer
- Self - Javelin Throw, Germany
- (uncredited)
Wilhelm Frick
- Self - Spectator
- (uncredited)
Joseph Goebbels
- Self - Spectator
- (uncredited)
Hermann Göring
- Self - Spectator
- (uncredited)
Ernest Harper
- Self - Marathon, GB
- (uncredited)
Karl Hein
- Self - Hammer Throw, Germany
- (uncredited)
Heinz Herman
- German flag carrier
- (uncredited)
Rudolf Hess
- Self - Stands with Hitler
- (uncredited)
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Leni Riefenstahl started something that we all take for granted nowadays when we watch sports.From the following camera in the 100 meters to slow motion action to the build up of tension(start with lesser athletes and end with the winning performance).All this is combined with some beautiful shooting of both the athletes as of the crowd together with the impressive Berlin Olympic Stadium.
OLYMPIA is not a propaganda movie like Riefenstahl's magnum opus TRIUMPH DES WILLENS but it still shows hitler and his gang plus the swastika flag several times(but hey,why is the waving swastika flag propaganda and the waving stars and stripes in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN just a flag).Anyway,it isn't so much about the nazi's,it's about the Olympics and Riefenstahl gives us a journalistic report of it.
Highlight to me(and probably to everybody)is the winning performance of Jesse Owens,one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century.
The second part of the documentary is the lesser of the two with too much emphasis on the diving,but it has got a comic sequence with the Militry.
A good documentary with high historical interest,but I would rather recommend TRIUMPH DES WILLENS.It is more shocking but it gives a better view of the nazi's. 7/10
OLYMPIA is not a propaganda movie like Riefenstahl's magnum opus TRIUMPH DES WILLENS but it still shows hitler and his gang plus the swastika flag several times(but hey,why is the waving swastika flag propaganda and the waving stars and stripes in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN just a flag).Anyway,it isn't so much about the nazi's,it's about the Olympics and Riefenstahl gives us a journalistic report of it.
Highlight to me(and probably to everybody)is the winning performance of Jesse Owens,one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century.
The second part of the documentary is the lesser of the two with too much emphasis on the diving,but it has got a comic sequence with the Militry.
A good documentary with high historical interest,but I would rather recommend TRIUMPH DES WILLENS.It is more shocking but it gives a better view of the nazi's. 7/10
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- Trivia[Taken from the German Arthaus DVD commentary] The pole vault finals shown in the movie aren't the real ones. The actual finals were held in the evening, and as no fast film (highly sensitive to light) was available at the time, Leni Riefenstahl wanted to have bright spotlights installed. The idea was rejected by the Olympic Committee, as it would hinder the athletes. So Riefenstahl asked the three American and two Japanese finalists to return the next evening, and restaged the action.
- ConnectionsEdited into Request Concert (1940)
- SoundtracksOlympische Hymnne
Composed by Richard Strauss
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- Olympia: The Film of the XI. Olympic Games Berlin, 1936
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- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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