OLYMPIA -The LENI RIEFENSTAHL Archival Collection
by LENI RIEFENSTAHL
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Director: LENI RIEFENSTAHLBrand: Olympia
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full length, Limited Edition, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 204 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of OLYMPIA -The LENI RIEFENSTAHL Archival Collection
Movie Review: Another Leni Riefenstahl classic...
Summary: 5 Stars
If you didn't know...About 9 minutes into the first part of this film, you get to see legendary director Leni Riefenstahl do a nude scene...
The most striking thing about Riefenstahl's documentary, viewed today, is its good taste. I admit I haven't seen the whole thing. Split into two parts for German release, it was edited somewhat and released simply as "Olympia" elsewhere, and it's "Olympia" that I've seen. I mention this because it's quite possible that "Olympia" is the version with the jingoism edited out. But I don't think so. (Surely if the film were to wave the swastika offensively, it would do so around the beginning, and the introductory sequence is just amazing.
In any case, if they edited all the jingoism out of a modern, two-hundred-hour Olympic telecast, it would last about ten minutes. It's amazing how much more crass and brazenly nationalistic modern coverage is when compared with Nazi propaganda. Riefenstahl shows races won by people other than Germans (and yes, some of them are non-Aryan) - she even shows us enough of the presentation ceremonies afterwards for us to be able to hear other national anthems! Another great example of historical propaganda and all in all a well filmed documentary.
Summary of OLYMPIA -The LENI RIEFENSTAHL Archival Collection
This limited edition 2-disc set features the complete original version of OLYMPIA, presented for the first time on DVD. (All Region, NTSC)Special Edition DVD features: Over 5 hours of material including JUGEND DER WELT ("Youth of The World") Official Documentary of the 1936 Winter Olympics at Gaemisch-Partenkirchen, DIE KAMERA FAHRT MIT ("The Camera Goes Too") 1936 Documentary by Bavaria-Filmkunst featuring footage from Leni Rifenstahl's films OLYMPIA and TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. Deleted Scenes, Biography, Still Gallery, German with ON/OFF English subtitles and English language, Dolby 2.0 audio, Essays by film historian David Calvert Smith, Trailer.
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