Tuesday | October 1, 2002 9:00 pm

Olympia, Part II

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.