TRIUMPH OF THE WILL: SPECIAL EDITION

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• Release Year: 1934
• Genre: Documentary, War
• Plot: Leni Riefenstahl’s classic piece of historical filmmaking, filmed during the 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, is considered by many to be one of the most important and controversial films ever made.; ; The film, realized by Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, was created to influence all of Germany to support the 'power' of the Nazi Party. All during World War II in every theatre in Germany either part of, or all of, ‘Triumph Of The Will’ was shown. ; ; Funded entirely by N.S.D.A.P. (the Nazi Party), Hitler hired the young actress/director Leni Riefenstahl to direct. Money was unlimited, so Riefenstahl was eating and sleeping in the editing room with hundreds of thousands of feet of film for almost a full year. All of the shots in ‘Triumph Of The Will’ are carefully constructed. Sets were specially built to accommodate cameras and Hitler was filmed separately from the crowds so Riefenstahl could edit together a film that would manipulate imagery and seduce the mind. ; ; An historically significant and, at times, horrifyingly manipulative exercise in propaganda for the Nazi regime, ‘Triumph Of The Will’ continues to be controversial over seventy years after its original release. This historical document has been unavailable in German for decades. Until her death in 2003, Riefenstahl was under fire for her personal relationship with Adolph Hitler, spending her life in the shadow of collaborating with the Nazi Party.
• Cast: Max Amann, Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler, Walter Buch, Walter Darré, Otto Dietrich, Sepp Dietrich, Hans Frank, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Jakob Grimminger, Rudolf Hess, Reinhard Heydrich, Konstantin Hierl, Heinrich Himmler, Robert Ley, Viktor Lutze, Erich Raeder, Fritz Reinhardt, Alfred Rosenberg, Hjalmar Schacht, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Julius Streicher, Fritz Todt, Werner von Blomberg, Hans Georg von Friedeburg, Gerd von Rundstedt, Baldur von Schirach, Adolf Wagner, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann, Eberhard Taubert
• Director: Leni Riefenstahl
• Runtime: 2:00
• Company: Leni Riefenstahl-Produktion, Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP, Synapse Films
• Media Format: Movie