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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 127 minutes
Actors
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 | Ernest Harper | Karl Hein | Heinz Herman | Rudolf Heß | Adolf Hitler | Volmari Iso-Hollo | Cornelius Johnson | Matti Järvinen | Elfriede Kaun | King Umberto II | Kalevi Kotkas | Gustaf Alfons Koutonen | Luise Krüger | Maria Kwasniewska | Theodor Lewald | Luz Long | Spiridon Louis | John Lovelock | Gisela Mauermayer | Earle Meadows | Ralph Metcalfe | Paula Mollenhauer | Väinö Muinonen | Seung-yong Nam | Henri Nannen | Yrjö Nikkanen | Shûhei Nishida | Paavo Nurmi | Dorothy Odam | Martinus Osendarp | Jesse Owens | Leni Riefenstahl | Mack Robinson | Ilmari Salminen | Julius Schaub | Kee-chung Sohn | Julius Streicher | Gerhard Stöck | Naoto Tajima | Erkki Tamila | Kalervo Toivonen | Forrest Towns | Werner von Blomberg | August von Mackensen | Hans von Tschammer und Osten | Hans Woellke | Sueo Ôe