Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Olympia - Fest der Völker
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
- Date of release
- 1938-04-21
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (128)
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Collection
- Olympia Collection
Casting
- David Albritton — Self (uncredited)
- Arvo Askola — Self (uncredited)
- Jack Beresford — Self (uncredited)
- Erwin Blask — Self (uncredited)
- Sulo Bärlund — Self (uncredited)
- Ibolya Csák — Self (uncredited)
- Glenn Cunningham — Self (uncredited)
- Henri de Baillet-Latour — Self (uncredited)
- Philip Edwards — Self (uncredited)
- Donald Finlay — Self (uncredited)
- Tilly Fleischer — Self (uncredited)
- Wilhelm Frick — Self (uncredited)
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