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It was the 1936 Berlin Games that introduced the opening ceremony, the torch relay, the three-tiered presentation ceremony, and the overall sense of lavish, religious spectacle. In a way these are the first modern games. Does it worry you that most of the stuff we most fondly associate with the Olympics originated with the Nazis? It doesn’t worry me: the Nazis’ moral sense may have been deplorable, but their aesthetic sense was not nearly so bad as people like to pretend.
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The most striking thing about Riefenstahl’s documentary, viewed today, is its good taste. I admit I haven’t seen the whole thing. Split into two parts for German release, it was edited somewhat and released simply as “Olympia” elsewhere, and it’s “Olympia” that I’ve seen. I mention this because it’s quite possible that “Olympia” is the version with the jingoism edited out. But I don’t think so. (Surely if the film were to wave the swastika offensively, it would do so around the beginning, and the introductory sequence is just marvellous - it no more deserves to be associated with Nazism than Orff’s “Carmina Burana”.) In any case, if they edited all the jingoism out of a modern, two-hundred-hour Olympic telecast, it would last about ten minutes. It’s amazing how much more crass and brazenly nationalistic modern coverage is when compared with Nazi propaganda. Riefenstahl shows races won by people other than Germans (and yes, some of them are non-Aryan) - she even shows us enough of the presentation ceremonies afterwards for us to be able to hear other national anthems! During the local coverage of the Sydney games I heard NOTHING but “Advance Australia Fair”. Only other Australians can fully appreciate the horror of this.
Leni Riefenstahl was a female director in the time of the nasty Nazi’s. It’s amazing to think that in a time when the Dictatorship was censoring so heavily and everything surrounded propaganda that such a historic piece of film could be made. If you have seen her most famous work, The Triumph of the Will, than you would think that this may be another one sided film showing the surpremacy of the German people. That is not the case with Olympia. There are even scenes of African athletes being awarded medals. You even get to see a pretty risque shot of the director herself in the beginning of the film…
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There are a few cool bonus features also. One is a bonus photo gallery and the other is a film of Berlin in color. It gives you a cool look at the city that Olympia was filmed in.
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