„Olympia. Fest der Völker. Fest der Schönheit“ (Deutschland 1938)
This image (TC 00:19.40) comes from one of the most famous sports films of all time: "Olympia. Festival of the Nations. Festival of Beauty" (Germany 1938) by Leni Riefenstahl. And yet only a few people saw it after 1945. Because it was removed from the film after the war. Leni Riefenstahl made a new version in the mid-1950s, which not only earned her a lot of money, but also proved that her Olympic film had nothing to do with the Nazis. With the help of German authorities and courts, who transferred the rights to the film to her, she de-nazified herself and her Olympic film, so to speak. Now this image, in which Adolf Hitler is copied onto the still of the Berlin Olympic Stadium, forms the conclusion and climax of the opening sequence. And it says: Hitler and these Olympic Games in Berlin, which he will subsequently open, are one, just as Nazi Germany and Hitler are one. The image is a still from the first part of the film. It was taken from the version contained in the DVD collection of all the Olympic films that Criterion in the USA published with the IOC. The booklet says: “We believe the restored version of Olympia contained in this collection to be as close as possible to the German version that premiered on Hitler’s forty-ninth birthday at Berlin’ am Zoo Theater”.
A denazified version can be found here.
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