Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

1938 • 1h 44m • ★ 6.7 (78 votes) Released

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.

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Writer

Leni Riefenstahl

Rating

6.7

Runtime

104 min

Budget

$0.6M

Production

Olympia-Film GmbH

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

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)

Velma Dunn

Self - Platfom Diver, USA (uncredited)

Konrad Frey

Self - Gymnastics, Germany (uncredited)

Marjorie Gestring

Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)

Albert Greene

Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)

Tetsuo Hamuro

Self - 1st Place: 200m Breaststroke, Japan (uncredited)

Josef Hasenöhrl

Self - Single Sculls Rower, Austria (uncredited)

Heinz Hax

Self - Rapid-Fire Pistol, Germany (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (uncredited)

Alois Hudec

Self - Gymnastics, Czechoslovakia (uncredited)

Cornelius Johnson

Self - High Jump Winner (uncredited)

Wladyslaw Karas

Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Poland (uncredited)

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Keywords

nazisportsolympic gamesgymnasticsnationalismnational socialismnational socialist partyolympiawoman directornsdap (nazi party)poetic documentary