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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

This first half of Riefenstahl's two-part documentary begins with a sweeping, poetic prologue that traces the Olympic Games back to ancient Greece. It then presents twenty-one athletic events from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, celebrating the human body and spirit, and builds to the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympics.

Original title
Olympia - Fest der Völker
Genre
Documentary
Director
Leni Riefenstahl
Cast
David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Erwin Blask, Sulo Bärlund, Ibolya Csák, Glenn Cunningham, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Philip Edwards, Donald Finlay, Tilly Fleischer, Wilhelm Frick, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Ernest Harper, Karl Hein, Heinz Herman, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Volmari Iso-Hollo
Country
Germany
Studios
Olympia-Film GmbH
Language
de
Year
1938
Duration
127
Release date
1938-04-21
TMDB
6.900 · 128 votes
Status
Released
Collection
Olympia Collection

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