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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.
Olympia: 1938 Leni Riefenstahl [19] 14 London 1948: XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport: 1948 Castleton Knight [14] joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics: 15 Helsinki 1952: Olympia 52: 1952 Chris Marker [20] Where the World Meets: 1952 Hannu Leminen: Official Gold and Glory: 1953 Hannu Leminen: Official 16 Melbourne 1956: Olympic ...
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."
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Olympia, an 1863 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet; Olympia, a 1948 oil on canvas painting by René Magritte; Olympia (comics), a fictional city in Marvel Comics; Olympia, a mechanical doll in E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story "Der Sandmann", and in the opera The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach
Riefenstahl's movie is the second Tiefland film that is based on the opera, the first one being a silent film in 1922, directed by Adolf E. Licho, with Lil Dagover as the main actress. The earlier American silent movie Marta of the Lowlands (1914) was based on the English translation of a Spanish translation of Guimerà's play.
Film director Leni Riefenstahl records Owens' victories despite Goebbels' orders; she asks Owens to repeat his medal-winning long jump to get a few more shots for her next film, Olympia. Back in America, Owens and Snyder attend a banquet in honor of Owens, but the doorman regretfully tells Owens he must enter through the service entrance. Owens ...
February 4 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first-ever full-length animated feature film, is released nationally in the United States, less than two months after its premiere in Los Angeles. The film is a huge box office success, and briefly holds the record as the highest-grossing sound film of all time.