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 Sport Journal, Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia": Brilliant Cinematography or Nazi Propaganda?
There are two parts to the film: the first begins with a history of the Olympic games, depicting the traditions of the ancient games in the city of Olympia and continues with many of the field events of the 1936 Berlin games; the second features the track and field events of the Berlin Games.
It seemed that since "Olympia" was produced by the same Germany that was beginning to wreak frightful havoc on the world, it had become an assumption that "Olympia" contained a message in support of National Socialism.
One of the strongest arguments supporting the notion that "Olympia" was a propaganda film (sociological) is also one of the strongest arguments supporting the notion that it was not a propaganda film: the perceived objectivity of the film and what appears to be an unbiased representation of the athletes, nations and games in general.
www.thesportjournal.org /2001Journal/fall/olympia.htm   (1467 words)

  
 Leni Riefenstahl haunted by the past, Tampere Film Festival, Festival News 2001
The Olympia project swallowed four years of Riefenstahl's life and resulted in the films "Olympia I - The Festival of the People" (Fest der Völker) and "Olympia II - The Festival of Beauty" (Fest der Schönheit).
Olympia was completed in 1938 and was received with enthusiasm in Germany.
Olympia I - The Festival of the People and Olympia II - The Festival of Beauty on Thursday March 8th, and Triumph of the Will on Sunday, March 11th.
www.uta.fi /festnews/fn2001/en/thu/riefensten.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Olympia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Film scholars often hail Olympia as an excellent example of Riefenstahl´s technical innovation in that she pioneered such cinematic techniques as montage footage and exhibited crafty and artistic manipulation of the camera; these praises are made with little consideration for the Nazi ideology that the film subtly carries.
With such an inspired allegiance to this Aryan ideal, the film is clearly tainted by Riefenstahl´s fondness of Nazi ideology and cannot accept a positive evaluation based solely on its technical merits.
Finally, in the second half of the film, the viewer sees more footage of semi- and even fully nude athletes exercising and relaxing in what seems to be the Olympic village, set apart from the urban landscape of Berlin.
kurosg.bol.ucla.edu /olympia.html   (897 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
Triumph of the Will (1935), a deification of Hitler, and Olympia (1938), a paean to the "body beautiful" in the guise of a record of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, are studied in film schools as supreme examples of the documentary form.
Olympia, and later her series of photography books on African tribes like the Nuba, brought charges from Susan Sontag and other intellectuals that Riefenstahl’s cult of the (male) body beautiful represented an unmistakable fascist ideal.
The excuse for Kazan is that his films are treasurable works of popular art, and some no doubt felt that in such a situation, given the choice between adhering to principle and not working/eating or becoming a snitch and maintaining a career, they would do what he did.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /26/riefenstahl.html   (1233 words)

  
 FILM, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 051114
Pauline Kael, the well-know New Yorker film critic, commenting on how she got hooked on films, agrees another critic, Paul Coates, that in its ideal form, "Cinema is the dream of an afterlife from which to comprehend this one" (Kael 63).
The film was used for the profit of the new Government and it became a part the general propaganda system that glorified the power of the strong Germany, its noble roots, its citizens, and their loyalty to their country and leader.
It examines the history of the horror film from the first film directed by Georges Melies in 1896 and its development through the period of silent and fl-and-white movies to the technological effects of the 21st century.
www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=film   (4055 words)

  
 Olympia (film) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Olympia is a 1938 film by (additional info and facts about Leni Riefenstahl) Leni Riefenstahl documenting the (additional info and facts about 1936 Summer Olympics) 1936 Summer Olympics.
There has been much discussion of whether this film should be classified as a (A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Nazi (additional info and facts about propaganda film) propaganda film, unlike her earlier (additional info and facts about Triumph of the Will) Triumph of the Will, which is unquestionably such.
The "Olympic Torch Run", now revered as a seemingly-ancient tradition, was devised by Riefenstahl for these games and this film in conjunction with the German sports official dr. (additional info and facts about Carl Diem) Carl Diem.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ol/olympia_(film).htm   (277 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | 007 and Leni Riefenstahl
The film is not granted status as a “real Bond,” but it is noteworthy nevertheless that this film was the first that used Bond to cross the bridge from modernity to postmodernity.
The film’s notion of Sir James Bond’s Edwardian superiority, the transformation of contemporary Bond into multiple copies, and the ultimate destruction of the villain as well as the hero(es) is the clear rejection of modernity for an openly mythic and transcendent solution to a technocratic world.
It is little wonder that Olympia, often called the greatest sport film ever made, would provide the pattern for the image of the female body in a film series that has attempted to celebrate the physical cult of the space age and beyond.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /41/007leni.htm   (5956 words)

  
 Culture Shock: The TV Series and Beyond: The Shock of the Nude: Manet's Olympia
Olympia and the controversy surrounding what is perhaps the most famous nude of the nineteenth-century are the focus of The Shock of the Nude: Manet's Olympia.
Like the artwork it examines, the film -- shot in Paris and New York -- is captivating, featuring powerful imagery from the past and the present, and compelling interviews with leading artists and scholars.
Olympia is a painting of a reclining nude woman, attended by a maid and a fl cat, gazing mysteriously at the viewer.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/manet.html   (882 words)

  
 Olympia (film)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Many advanced motionpicture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed, includingunusual camera angles, smash-cut editing techniques, extreme close-ups and the like.
The techniques employed are almostuniversally admired, but the film is controversial due to its political content.
Were it not for Riefenstahl's well-documented connection to Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi figures, the film wouldprobably be far less controversial.
www.therfcc.org /olympia-film--194304.html   (159 words)

  
 The 22nd Annual Olympia Film Festival :: November 4-13, 2005
Marked by steady growth in members, volunteers, and regular film screenings, the 21-year history of the Olympia Film Society (OFS) describes our ascent from a handful of film lovers chipping in to rent films once a month to an organization with over 1500 members.
The first Olympia Film Festival is born and held at the State Theater.
ArtsWalk, Olympia's biannual downtown arts festival, is born this year to coincide with the opening of the Olympia Film Festival.
www.olympiafilmfestival.com /ofs.asp   (569 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the same time that Riefenstahl was mapping out her film in Berlin, she sent filmmaker Willy Zielke, an independent filmmaker who had been linked with the early Surrealists, to Greece.
At some point, when doing practice film runs on trainings before the Olympics began, it was decided that these might be used as inserts into the actual events, shot later.
Riefenstahl's repeated success at obtaining approvals, increases in funding, breaking free of the Reich's Propaganda ministry, and finally in attracting a young and energetic crew was all the more impressive in that she was a woman.
www.dasblauelicht.net /new_page_25.htm   (278 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This classic film from 1957 stars Henry Fonda as a juror who is not convinced "beyond a reasonable doubt" that a defendant is guilty.
Immediately after the film the participants are invited to the 2nd floor mezzanine area to discuss the film and the death penalty and to pick up printed information.
The Olympia FOR is the local chapter of the nationwide Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was founded in 1915.
www.olywa.net /wip/Spring2000/DeathPenAware.html   (629 words)

  
 The Official City of Olympia Web Site - Sites and Attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Olympia Farmers Market (second largest outdoor market in the state) is also a popular regional draw for much of the year.
Olympia's historic Bigelow House, built during the 1850's by pioneer lawyer Daniel R. Bigelow and his school teacher wife Ann Elizabeth, is one of the oldest homes still standing in the Pacific Northwest.
Olympia boasts extensive public art collections both downtown and on the Capitol Campus, in addition to those at The Evergreen State College and South Puget Sound Community College.
www.ci.olympia.wa.us /information/sites.asp   (1511 words)

  
 Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit (1938)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Given unquestionable freedom, Leni Riefenstahl created a film which is bold in composition and visual aptitude.
While many will say Riefenstahl was a pro-Nazi film maker, one cannot deny the innovation she instilled in the art of film making.
If you can take the near 4-hour running time and the fact there is no dialogue in the film, then experience this film for the power and breathtaking visuals, not the supposed pro-Nazi agenda.
us.imdb.com /Title?0030523   (317 words)

  
 CUNA News Now: CU-difference movie opens at film festival
The film includes the credit union's first loan to a homeless single mother and testimonials from an ex-banker of 25 years.
At the premiere of "The Story of TULIP" at the Olympia Film Festival are, from left, Doty Catlin, loan officer and member service representative; board member Robert Marino; and Anita Beninger, film producer and principle of Anita Media.
The film may have a future as a special on PBS television or as a video press release.
www.cuna.org /newsnow/04/system111004-2.html   (368 words)

  
 About John Paget, documentary filmmaker
His first documentary, Route 66, won five international film festival awards and was broadcast as a multi-episode series on PBS stations nationwide in 2000.
The film helped spark a national movement to save America's historic highways and highway architecture.
With co-producer Matt Valentine, Paget researched, shot and directed the landmark film Saints of the Revolution, the definitive documentary on the history of the church in Castro's Cuba.
www.pagetfilms.com /About.html   (585 words)

  
 Film Festivals in USA Washington State / mandy.com film TV services
Since 1984, The Olympia Film Festival has thrived as a truly independent event, presenting 10 days of independent and international film each October.
This intensive 25-day exhibition of feature-length and short films from around the world, has become internationally recognized as one of the most important and influential film festivals in the world.
Polish films and films by Polish directors sponsored by the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association.
www.mandy.com /1/services.cfm?c=fest&t=uswa   (205 words)

  
 The Stranger - Film - Feature - Olywood!
For a film festival to be big, it has to show a lot of films.
But for a film festival to be romantic, it has to spring out of the romantic impulse to gather, witness, and testify.
Of all the Northwest film festivals, the Olympia Film Festival is the most romantic, largely because it centers around a place.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=8927   (689 words)

  
 Winter Song by Iranian director Mehranfar, best children film in the world
The Winter Song, directed by Farhad Mehranfar, on Saturday was awarded by Athens' International Children's Film Festival as the best film of the year 2003 throughout the world, IRNA reported.
The renowned and much awarded Iranian film director, Mehranfar has directed Winter Song which is telling a story of endeavors of a female teacher who is also a mother of a village family.
He directed his first feature film in 1997, Mooshak e kaghazi (Paper Airplanes), recipient of a Mention from the New Directors Award Jury at San Sebastian Festival, followed by Derakht-e-jan (The Tree of Life, 1998, screened in Zabaltegi) and Afsaneh-e eshgh (The Legend of Love, 2000).
www.payvand.com /news/03/dec/1101.html   (326 words)

  
 Leni Riefenstahl: FILMOGRAPHY
The film is of minor importance and is even not registered in the Lamprecht catalogue.
Documentary film about the Wehrmacht's manoeuvre during the NSDAP's 7th Reich Party Congress which was held in Nuremberg from September 10th till September 16th 1935.
The film had been produced in four versions, a German, an English, a French and an Italian one, the latter in Cinecittà.
www.leni-riefenstahl.de /eng/film.html   (1208 words)

  
 Leni Riefenstahl Video Downloads (Part Two: Leni Riefenstahl Produktion)
Note: There are two separate sequences from Olympia shown here: the first, with the introductory nature shots and the scenes showing the male athletes, are the opening scenes from Part II of the film (Fest der Schönheit); the second segment, showing the female dancers, is from Part I of the film (Fest der Völker).
With regard to Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, however, one must remember that it was Speer who was responsible for having created that aspect of the closing ceremonies, not Leni (indeed, Leni could hardly be said to be personally responsible for organizing any of the events which took place at the Olympic Games).
Leni's Olympia showed that there was an eye to that storm, that beyond — and within — that Blitzkrieg there was peace, justice, truth and, indeed, something truly beautiful.
www.riefenstahl.org /downloads/video-riefenstahl.html   (2789 words)

  
 Art Approved of by the Third Reich
Film making was also pressed into the service of the Nazi propaganda machine.
No expense or effort was spared in the production of this film; holes were dug into the ground to allow for the best camera angles and Party officials were kept waiting for hours as the firming progressed.
Another Riefenstahl film, Olympia, glorified the Aryan racial type in the context of the Olympics.
www.fcit.usf.edu /holocaust/arts/artReich.htm   (1281 words)

  
 Olympia
Olympia, Washington, United StatesA music hall in Paris, France, see Paris OlympiaOlympia Heights, FloridaOlympia Fields, IllinoisOlympia, GreeceOlympia, Great Britain[?]Olympia (film)[?], a 1938 film by Leni RiefenstahlThis is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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We felt that we were now full of years, and should part of our lives; still we might do some trade with the land.
www.termsdefined.net /ol/olympia.html   (372 words)

  
 vivamalta.org - Olympia 1936 - Documetary of excellence
This failure of modern reviewers to point this out (at the time of Olympia's release, even her opponents acknowledged that the film held no propagandistic value) is not only an injustice to Leni and to her film, but is indeed an injustice to themselves.
The significance of this is naturally not only because of his acheivements as an athlete in his own right (regardless of race), but the "slap in the face" that his successes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics were to the Nazi ideals of Aryan superiority.
The closing shots of Olympia, which feature the famous "cathedral of light", is another beautiful example of Leni's skill at direction and editing, making exquisite use of Light, Shadow and Contrast, all synchronized beautifully with the Music of Herbert Windt.
www.vivamalta.org /forum/showthread.php?t=556   (1559 words)

  
 Manhunt.com: The Gits Movie in the Olympia Film Festival; November 11th at The Capitol Theater by Alex Steininger, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Here is the story of how The Gits film began: Late one night in 2001, I was going through some books I had purchased for research on a documentary I was working on at the time.
The film will attempt to contextualize The Gits as part of a loyal and creative community, and explore how they were transformed through the experience of having been a unique and explosive underground rock group for seven years.
This film will tell the story of a band that many referred to as "the band of the people." SIFF is Seattle International Film Festival: SIFF brings Seattle audiences a chance to participate in the largest and most highly attended film festival in the country.
www.manhunt.com /news/stories/1129765508.html   (1625 words)

  
 Great Electronics: Olympia
It made the point that the erotic element is an immensely valuable and important ingredient in creative writing--not a foreign, secondary and suspect factor, as the supporters of censorship insisted.
Maurice Girodias, the founder of Olympia Press and the editor of this book said the primary object was to dismantle censorship; then, with the sexual revolution well on its way, the aim was to normalize the situation and help integrate the erotic side of life into creative writing.
Along with the cities of Lacey and Tumwater, Olympia is the focal point of the South Puget Sound region.
www.novointeractive.com /333.html   (861 words)

  
 Iron Art
Olympia, but with a film crew following him, it could be a lot harder than he
Olympia’s, including his sixth and final Olympia in 1975, which was recorded on
Olympia title that day, nor would he ever, his arms were too small
www.louisville.edu /~lgdavi01/paper1.html   (1169 words)

  
 Film Threat - Film Festivals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Second, being a relatively small community, the festival is able to truly transform Olympia, creating an atmosphere as creative and unique as the films themselves.
But the main reason to attend this year's festival is the great line up of films, many of which you won't be seeing anywhere else, and which we are proud to have procured for your edification and enjoyment.
Aside from making his own films, Bangs is Spike Jonzes' right hand man, single handedly doing the behind the scenes documentary work for the films Being John Malkovitch and the upcoming Adaptation.
www.filmthreat.com /FilmFestivals.asp?Id=603   (642 words)

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