Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Stately, poetic images of bodies in motion, beautiful and unsettling given the propaganda purpose behind the spectacle.

Directed by

Leni Riefenstahl

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Sheigo Arai, Albert Bachmann, Daniel Barrow

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.

How it feels

Earnest, dark and uplifting. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Sport, power, identity, art

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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