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Olympia Part 2

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

Part two 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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