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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary · 2h 07m
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.
Cast
David Albritton
Self (uncredited)
A
Arvo Askola
Self (uncredited)
Jack Beresford
Self (uncredited)
E
Erwin Blask
Self (uncredited)
S
Sulo Bärlund
Self (uncredited)
I
Ibolya Csák
Self (uncredited)
G
Glenn Cunningham
Self (uncredited)
Henri de Baillet-Latour
Self (uncredited)
Philip Edwards
Self (uncredited)
Donald Finlay
Self (uncredited)
T
Tilly Fleischer
Self (uncredited)
W
Wilhelm Frick
Self (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Writer
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Director of Photography
- Kurt Neubert, Guzzi Lantschner, Walter Frentz, Hans Scheib, Hans Ertl, Albert Kling, Paul Holzki, Willy Hameister, Werner Hundhausen, Hasso Hartnagel, Leo De Lafrue, Hans Karl Gottschalk, Josef Dietze, Richard Groschopp, E. Epkins, Wolf Hart, Walter Hege, Wilfried Basse, Albert Höcht, Georg Lemke, W. Siehm, Otto Lantschner, Wilhelm Schmidt, Lagorio, C.A. Linke, Alfred Siegert, Eberhard von der Heyden, Hugo von Kaweczynski, Alexander von Lagorio, Károly Vass, Sepp Ketterer, Carl Junghans, Andor von Bàrsy, Fritz von Friedl, Heinz von Jaworsky, Herbert Kebelmann, Erich Nitzschmann, Ernst Kunstmann, E. Lambertini, H. von Stwolinski, Willy Zielke, Leo de Laforgue, Waldemar Lembke, Leo Schwedler, Ernst Sorge, Albert Schattmann, Hugo O. Schulze
- Original Music Composer
- Herbert Windt
- Editor
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Producer
- Leni Riefenstahl
Details
- Original title
- Olympia - Fest der Völker
- Release date
- 1938-04-21
- Runtime
- 2h 07m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, Italian, Japanese, French, English, Portuguese
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Olympia-Film GmbH
- Budget
- $550,000