Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Name: Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Released: 1938

Leni Riefenstahl

sports olympia nazi olympic games national socialist party

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Synopsis

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.

Year1938

CountryGermany

DirectorLeni Riefenstahl

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