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Item Details
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OLYMPIA
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| By: |
Taylor Downing |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844574709 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844574704 |
| Publisher: |
BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE |
| Pub. date: |
13 February, 2012 |
| Series: |
BFI Film Classics |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
In this new edition Taylor Downing provides an indispensible guide to one of the most controversial films ever made, Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia. Incorporating discussion of new material and new archival information about its development, Downing also gives a film-maker's insights into the logistical and technical problems faced by the production. |
| Synopsis: |
Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl secured Hitler's approval for her grandiose plans to film the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The result was a work as notorious for its politics as celebrated for its aesthetic power. This revised edition includes new material on Riefenstahl's film-making career before Olympia and her close relationship with Hitler. Taylor Downing also discusses newly-available evidence on the background to the film's production that conclusively proves that the film was directly commissioned by Hitler and funded through Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda and not, as Riefenstahl later claimed, commissioned independently from the Nazi state by the Olympic authorities. In writing this edition, Taylor Downing has been given access to a magnificent new restoration of the original version of the film by the International Olympic Committee. |
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128 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
BFI Publishing |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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