Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

1938

German

7.7

♡ 5

89%

national socialist party

Leni Riefenstahl Director

Adolf Hitler as Self - Declares Games Open

Hermann Göring as Self - Spectator

Julius Schaub as Self - Spectator, with Glasses, Behind Hitler

Rudolf Hess as Self - Stands with Hitler

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.