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Olympia Part 2

Screening on Film
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
Germany, 1938, 35mm, black & white, 107 min.

Part 2 of Olympia continues the focus on the international competition at the summer Olympic games of 1936, held in Berlin. It contains the celebrated diving sequence, in which Riefenstahl’s editing and slow-motion cinematography transform the men’s competition into an ode to flight.

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