Olympia [2 Discs] [Limited Edition]

Leni Riefenstahl

Overview

"The Festival of Beauty" features aquatics, bicycling, the decathlon, field hockey, the marathon race, polo, rowing, sailing, and soccer.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/27/2006
UPC:	0825307915990
Original Release:	1938
Source:	Pathfinder Home Ent.
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	3:24:00
Sales rank:	17,961

Special Features

Deleted scene: "Olympia Oath"; Alternate scenes; Essay by film historian David Calvert Smith; Biography ; Still gallery; German with on/off English subtitles; English language; Dolby 2.0 audio; Short film Jugend Der Welt ("Youth of the World") ; Official documentary of the 1936 Winter Olympics at Garmisch-; Partenkirchen; Die Kamera Fahrt Mit ("The Camera Goes Along"); 1936 Documentary of Bavaria-Filmkunst featuring footage from Leni Riefenstahl's films Olympia and Triumph of the Will

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Technical Credits

Walter Grosskopf	Producer
Leni Riefenstahl	Producer
Walter Traut	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Olympia
1. Chapter 1 [7:17]
2. Chapter 2 [7:42]
3. Chapter 3 [9:24]
4. Chapter 4 [3:18]
5. Chapter 5 [2:31]
6. Chapter 6 [1:33]
7. Chapter 7 [2:24]
8. Chapter 8 [3:57]
9. Chapter 9 [4:07]
10. Chapter 10 [5:57]
11. Chapter 11 [3:38]
12. Chapter 12 [2:47]
13. Chapter 13 [3:20]
14. Chapter 14 [2:26]
15. Chapter 15 [4:31]
16. Chapter 16 [6:13]
17. Chapter 17 [3:00]
18. Chapter 18 [3:26]
19. Chapter 19 [6:01]
20. Chapter 20 [10:04]
21. Chapter 21 [1:50]
22. Chapter 22 [4:42]
23. Chapter 23 [12:22]
24. Chapter 24 [2:13]
Disc #2 -- Olympia
1. Chapter 1 [2:16]
2. Chapter 2 [4:34]
3. Chapter 3 [7:57]
4. Chapter 4 [5:43]
5. Chapter 5 [6:44]
6. Chapter 6 [4:58]
7. Chapter 7 [1:34]
8. Chapter 8 [12:40]
9. Chapter 9 [7:32]
10. Chapter 10 [4:05]
11. Chapter 11 [10:04]
12. Chapter 12 [4:06]
13. Chapter 13 [2:54]
14. Chapter 14 [5:48]
15. Chapter 15 [4:02]
16. Chapter 16 [3:12]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Olympia
Play Movie
Chapter Selections
Special Features
English Version Opening
Special Features Contained on Disc 2
DVD Production Credits
Audio/Subtitles
Languages
German
English
English Subtitles
English Subtitles: On
English Subtitles: Off
Disc #2 -- Olympia
Play Movie
Chapter Selections
Special Features
Biography
Deleted Scene ("Olympia Oath")
Alternate Scenes
Sailing
Gymnastics
Fencing
Wrestling
Boxing
Score Boards
Still Gallery
Essay by David Calvert Smith
Jugend Der Welt ("Youth of The World")
Die Kamera Fahrt Mit ("The Camera Goes Along")
DVD Production Credits
Audio/Subtitles
Languages
German
English
English Subtitles
English Subtitles: On
English Subtitles: Off

Editorial Reviews

It seems safe to say that Leni Riefenstahl's document of the 1936 Berlin Olympiad will never be surpassed as a record of the greatest spectacle in competitive sports. The only film that has come close -- Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad -- was made thanks to the deep pockets of its host country at a time before TV coverage of the games was so pervasive and instant home video compilations of the games became available. Moreover, Riefenstahl, as she demonstrated in the technically brilliant propaganda film Triumph of the Will, had a poet's eye for capturing spectacles on both a grand and intimate scale. Olympia might have been a paean to the Third Reich and the superiority of the German athlete (its prologue, featuring only Aryans in various poses and action sequences, suggests that), but Riefenstahl nimbly sidestepped her Nazi masters to offer if not a completely objective view of the games, at least one which did not stint on the accomplishments of runners, jumpers, and swimmers from many nations and of many ethnic backgrounds. If a filmmaker not employed by the Third Reich had made this picture, he or she might have included all of the implicit comparisons between the Nazi athletes and the ancient Greeks who posed for classic sculptures, but that filmmaker also would not have possessed Riefenstahl's eye for composition and movement.