Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1940)

  • NR
  • 03/29/1940 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 44m

Overview

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.

Leni Riefenstahl

Director, Writer

Cast

Sheigo Arai's headshot

Sheigo Arai

Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Albert Bachmann's headshot

Albert Bachmann

Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)
Daniel Barrow's headshot

Daniel Barrow

Self - Single Sculls Rower, USA (uncredited)
Jack Beresford's headshot

Jack Beresford

Self - Rower, Britain (uncredited)
Ralf Berzsenyi's headshot

Ralf Berzsenyi

Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Hungary (uncredited)
Ferenc Csík's headshot

Ferenc Csík

Self - Swimmer, Hungary (uncredited)
Richard Degener's headshot

Richard Degener

Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)
Willemijntje den Ouden's headshot

Willemijntje den Ouden

Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)

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