Triumph Of The Will (1934) / Viljens Triumf (UK-import)
Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph Of The Will may be the most controversial film ever made both despised and admired. A shamelessly biased unabashedly subjective rendering of the infamous 1934 Nuremberg rallies Triumph Of The Will was commissioned by Hitler himself from the director. An essential document of Hitler the orator and mesmeriser of the masses this stunning documentary revels in the monumental architecture of Albert Speer the formal precision of marching cadres and above all the almost religious exhaltation of Hitler as the mystical personification of the dreams and ideals of his people captured kinetically with a mastery of technique that is both breathtaking and sinister.
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