Leni Riefenstahl

The Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1936) are German propaganda films, directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director and propagandist for the Nazis. The films were created by Leni Riefenstahl in order to deliver the Nazi propaganda messages to the viewers and glorify Adolf Hitler as the savior of Germany. Also, the films were created because both films document the early days of the Nazi Party and its leader’s moments so that future generations could go back…

Leni Riefenstahl exerted a significant impact on Nazi propaganda between 1933-1939 and epitomised Josef Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda) opinion that propaganda messages are most effective when they are disguised in popular mediums, contain partial truths and enable deeper emotional connections with the audience. She used her artistic capabilities to produce cinematic masterpieces portraying numerous Nazi ideologies. Riefenstahl also greatly impacted Nazi propaganda as she used eye witness…

how it affected the war related to our classes discussions about World War II. Throughout the novel, Brown explained that Adolf Hitler had people by his side to help influence his decisions. Two of his main helpers were Dr. Joseph Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl. Goebbels was first introduced in Chapter 1 where Brown…

In 1936, the University of Washington rowing team participated in the Berlin Olympics crew race, and they finally won the gold medal. Joyce and Joe’s sibling feel exciting after they heard this good news through radio. Leni Riefenstahl also wanted to make a film in order to record this honorable moment. After reading this book, I found out that the ways that audiences watch or hear a crew race now is really different from in 1930s. In chapter 18, after German, Italian and American rowing team…

The Triumph of the Will, a documentary from 1935 set in Germany, revolutionized cinema when Leni Riefenstahl captured and exalted the fearless Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler and his infamous Nazi party. The film uses powerful imagery of Hitler himself and adoring crowds to emphasize his deity like leadership and the people’s love for him. In a time of insane rule, Riefenstahl’s picture was the propaganda for the Nazis that pushed its ideals through techniques that gave them false hope for the future of…

The 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany’s Berlin were the first olympic games to be seriously documented on camera with Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1938). The games were split into two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). Part I runs 126 minutes and Riefenstahl makes great use of those 126 minutes. Starting with a visual overture of dolly and pan shots of roman architecture and statues, extreme closeups of the…

Film Analysis Jarett Lopez HIS 413-001 Spring 2018 Question Responses 1. When filming, and producing, Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl took great care in assuring that the camera angles were as wide as possible. The opening shot of the movie sets that tone, with the plane descending into Germany, with wide shots of the countryside as it makes its descent. These wide angles are mostly maintained throughout the film, as if the party were trying to convey its immensity to the German people,…

Huxley quotes Herman Rauschning, who mentions the influence the Catholic church’s system of hierarchy had on Hitler. The theme of rank difference is persistent throughout the film. Riefenstahl begins the film with a point of view from the sky that almost seems godlike. The camera goes through the sky, showing the viewer where Hitler is coming from before he arrives to the airport; descending from the clouds. In the speeches he gives,…

Leni Riefenstahl’s movie Triumph of the Will is recorded in a documentary style, and appears to be propaganda movie of Germany, Hitler and the Nazi party. It is quite influential because it is filled with Third Reich’s powerful speeches which are very intense and persuasive in addressing the German nation. The movie is intense, filled with powerful speeches addressing the public and appears to be staged and choreographed. For example, at one point, the public workers come together in a group and…

'Aunt Raini' demonstrated a conflict between a hearty sense of morale and the artist's desire to ignore the oppression of the beliefs where modern-day human morale should stand in order of pursuing their passion of creating art. In the play, Leni Riefenstahl, under the pseudonym Aunt Raini, comes out from hiding her identity as a well-known German film director and accused Third Reich collaborator years later during a clash of different perceptions between her and her niece's boyfriend whowhom…