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Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles.
Riefenstahl's finished masterpiece, Triumph of the Will, contains many impressive scenes, but perhaps none more powerful than the scene in which Hitler, Himmler, and the new SA leader, Viktor Lutze, walk down a wide aisle in the center of Nuremberg stadium flanked on either side by gigantic formations of Nazis in perfectly aligned columns.
Perhaps the most famous Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will has been the source of much discussion since its premiere in 1935. Director Leni Riefenstahl set out to “document” the annual Nazi party rally in September 1934 with a keen eye and with the advanced technology to capture wide pans and close-up shots from below while the ...
The result was Der Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will)—a Nazi propaganda film widely considered to be among the most effective of its kind. Screens of text open the film, framing Hitler as a savior whose coming began “the German Rebirth.”
This research aims to analyze the symbolic images – and clearly inspired by the mythologies of the West and the East – inserted at crucial moments in the narrative of the most important political documentary in film history, Triumph of the Will, directed by German film maker Leni Riefenstahl.
In Leni Riefenstahl. …Hitler; Triumph des Willens (1935; Triumph of the Will), an important documentary study of the 1934 Nazi Party convention at Nürnberg that emphasized the unity of the party, introduced the leaders to the German people, and exhibited Nazi power to the world; and Olympische Spiele (1938; Olympia), a two-part film…. Read ...
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Jan 4, 2019 · Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will film analysis. Movie summary and review of the 1935 Nazi propaganda movie, scene by scene.
