Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1938-04-21
Runtime: 127 mins
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Writer: Leni Riefenstahl
Spoken language: Deutsch, Italiano, 日本語, Français, English, Português
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Production Companies: Olympia-Film GmbH
Production Countries: Germany
Cast
David Albritton
Arvo Askola
Jack Beresford
Erwin Blask
Sulo Bärlund
Ibolya Csák
Glenn Cunningham
Henri de Baillet-Latour
Philip Edwards
Donald Finlay
Tilly Fleischer
Wilhelm Frick
Joseph Goebbels
Hermann Göring
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