Poster for Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)

NR ★ 6.7/10 104 min Documentary Germany German

Director: Leni Riefenstahl

Writer: Leni Riefenstahl

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Description

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.

Top Cast

Sheigo Arai Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)

Albert Bachmann Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)

Daniel Barrow Self - Single Sculls Rower, USA (uncredited)

Jack Beresford Self - Rower, Britain (uncredited)

Ralf Berzsenyi Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Hungary (uncredited)

Ferenc Csík Self - Swimmer, Hungary (uncredited)

Richard Degener Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)

Willemijntje den Ouden Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)

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