Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
About Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty is a 1938 documentary film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Sheigo Arai appears as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited), Albert Bachmann as Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited), Daniel Barrow as Self - Single Sculls Rower, USA (uncredited), and Jack Beresford as Self - Rower, Britain (uncredited).
At 104 minutes long, it arrived in June 1938. Written by Leni Riefenstahl.
Shelv files it under olympic games, gymnastics, nationalism, and national socialism. American members can watch it on FlixFling, IndieFlix, and IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel. It scores 6.7 out of 10 from 82 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, Downfall, and The Great Dictator make useful companions to Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty, all filed under national socialist party and nazi.