Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)

06/02/1938 (DE) • 1h 44m

Documentary

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.

Top Billed Cast

Sheigo Arai

Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)

Albert Bachmann

Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)

Daniel Barrow

Self - Single Sculls Rower, USA (uncredited)

Jack Beresford

Self - Rower, Britain (uncredited)

Ralf Berzsenyi

Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Hungary (uncredited)

Ferenc Csík

Self - Swimmer, Hungary (uncredited)

Richard Degener

Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)

Willemijntje den Ouden

Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)

Charles des Jammonières

Self - Free Pistol, France (uncredited)


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Part of the Olympia Collection

Includes Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

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Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

$550,000.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

nazi

sports

olympic games

gymnastics

nationalism

national socialism

national socialist party

olympia

woman director

nsdap (nazi party)

poetic documentary

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