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Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin during the Nazi period. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) (126 minutes) and Olympia 2.
Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 6 Coma: United Artists: Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Hari Rhodes, Richard Doyle, Lance LeGault, Tom Selleck, Joanna Kerns, Ed Harris, Philip Baker Hall: September 30, 1955: Universal Pictures
The film garnered a strong critical response. It currently has a 95% rating amongst critics cited on the Rotten Tomatoes film review website. [1]"This movie is fascinating in so many different ways: As the story of an extraordinary life, as the reconstruction of the career of one of the greatest of film artists, as the record of an ideological debate, as a portrait of an amazing old woman."
On 31 August 1938, Olympia won the Mussolini cup at the Venice Film Festival as "Best foreign film". [38] She arrived in New York City on 4 November 1938, five days before Kristallnacht (the "Night of the Broken Glass"). [48] When news of the event reached the United States, [48] Riefenstahl publicly defended Hitler. [48]
Jan Sterling (born Jane Sterling Adriance; April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American film, television and stage actress.At her most active in films during the 1950s (immediately prior to which she had joined the Actors Studio), [1] Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954) as well as an Academy Award for ...
Cotten in 1943. Joseph Cotten was an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. Cotten's most notable projects include his collaborations with Orson Welles.He portrayed Jed Leland in Citizen Kane (1941), Eugene Morgan in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Howard Graham in Journey into Fear (1943).
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich [4] (/ m ɑːr ˈ l eɪ n ə ˈ d iː t r ɪ x /, German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] ⓘ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) [5] was a German-born American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades.
In 1978, she won her fourth Golden Globe for "world film favorite". Other movies of this decade were Academy Award nominee Sunflower (1970), which was a critical success, and Arthur Hiller's Man of La Mancha (1972), which was a critical and commercial failure despite being nominated for several awards, including two Golden Globes.