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.

Country:

Germany

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

1938

Director:

Leni Riefenstahl

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Company:

Olympia-Film GmbH

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)

Crew:
Leni Riefenstahl

Producer

Herbert Windt

Original Music Composer

Leni Riefenstahl

Editor

Leni Riefenstahl

Director

Willy Hameister

Director of Photography