Triumph des Willens

Deutschland 1934/1935 Dokumentarfilm

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Summary

Leni Riefenstahl′s film of the Nuremberg Rally is the best-known and most discussed work of Nazi propaganda. Beginning with the arrival of Hitler′s plane in Nuremberg, the formally elaborate work knits together the various stations of the mass rally into a manipulative production of the National Socialist Führer cult. Riefenstahl weaves story-boarded sequences and documentary footage according to narrative methods, so that lineups of Nazi followers and allegedly spontaneous reactions of bystanders then manifest as the self-aggrandizing iconography of the Nazi Regime.

 

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Credits

All Credits

Director

Still photography

Lighting design

Producer

Location manager

Original distributor

Shoot

    • September 1934 - Oktober 1934: Nürnberg
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 28.03.1935, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE) Triumph des Willens
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) Triumph des Willens. Das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934

Versions

Original

Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 28.03.1935, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
114 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,19
Video/Audio:
s/w, Mono

Prüffassung

Duration:
7 Akte, 3109 m, 114 min
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 26.03.1935, B.38956, Jugendfrei ab 14 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Awards

Weltfachausstellung Paris 1937
  • Grand Prix
Nationaler Filmpreis 1935
  • Nationaler Filmpreis
IFF Venedig 1935
  • Bester ausländischer Dokumentarfilm