Olympia: the film of the XI Olympic Games. Part II

Description: Part two from Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia”, a record of the Berlin Games of 1936 and an elegy on the youth of 1936, dedicated to the highest ideals of sportsmanship. In this part, Riefenstahl focusses on the aesthetics of the young virile body of the athletes creating a visual poetry in motion.