Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
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Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1938-06-02
Runtime: 104 mins
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Writer: Leni Riefenstahl
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Production Companies: Olympia-Film GmbH
Production Countries: Germany
Cast
Sheigo Arai
Albert Bachmann
Daniel Barrow
Jack Beresford
Ralf Berzsenyi
Ferenc Csík
Richard Degener
Willemijntje den Ouden
Charles des Jammonières
Velma Dunn
Konrad Frey
Marjorie Gestring
Albert Greene
Tetsuo Hamuro
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