Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
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.
- Released
- 1938-04-21
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Leni Riefenstahl
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 128 votes
Cast
- David Albritton as Self (uncredited)
- Arvo Askola as Self (uncredited)
- Jack Beresford as Self (uncredited)
- Erwin Blask as Self (uncredited)
- Sulo Bärlund as Self (uncredited)
- Ibolya Csák as Self (uncredited)
- Glenn Cunningham as Self (uncredited)
- Henri de Baillet-Latour as Self (uncredited)
- Philip Edwards as Self (uncredited)
- Donald Finlay as Self (uncredited)
- Tilly Fleischer as Self (uncredited)
- Wilhelm Frick as Self (uncredited)