Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial
films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will
(1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl secured
Hitler's approval for her grandiose plans to film the 1936 Berlin
Olympics. The result was a work as notorious for its politics as
celebrated for its aesthetic power. This revised edition includes
new material on Riefenstahl's film-making career before Olympia and
her close relationship with Hitler. Taylor Downing also discusses
newly-available evidence on the background to the film's production
that conclusively proves that the film was directly commissioned by
Hitler and funded through Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda and
not, as Riefenstahl later claimed, commissioned independently from
the Nazi state by the Olympic authorities. In writing this edition,
Taylor Downing has been given access to a magnificent new
restoration of the original version of the film by the
International Olympic Committee.
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