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Follows the Fifth Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg, 30 August–3 September 1933) and shows the then close relationship between Adolf Hitler and Ernest Rõhm.
The Victory of Faith
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La Victoire de la foi, Victory of faith, 신념의 승리, A vitória da Fé, La victoria de la fe, 信仰的胜利, La vittoria della fede
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01 Dec 1933
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2nd Leni Riefenstahl (after Triumph of the Will)
My first experience of Riefenstahl was being slightly drunk at my Jewish-background Uncle's house. Gifted with an extremely dark sense of humour, it was quite surreal to listen to him refer to the Nazis as 'Adolf and the Boys'. I think it's important to maintain a tongue-in-cheek attitude with certain pieces of extreme-Right propaganda, otherwise it's all to easy to be massively depressed by the absolute state of human depravity. The page on which I found my copy of Victory... was filled with anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial comments, and even more depressingly, the video with top views under the Documentary tag on Internet Archive is a nine part documentary on 'The Jewish…
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Me gustaría despreciar el cine nacional-socialista de Leni Riefenstahl, pero no sólo tiene un dominio asombroso de la forma: su esencia misma se basa en afectar al espectador. Ni La victoria de la fe ni El triunfo de la voluntad, películas sobre los mítines anuales del nazismo en Nuremberg, son exploraciones racionales del pensamiento fascista, al contrario de, por ejemplo, la propaganda liberal de Frank Capra, lo cual habla para bien del cine demócrata, aunque estéticamente sea menos interesante. En cambio, Riefenstahl coincidió con el nazismo en su espectacular asalto a las emociones. La película no dice mucho —o nada— en términos de ideas pero su poética observación de los objetos hace de Hitler un fenómeno divino. A menudo el…
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I’ve seen a number of people using this film as a way of propping up Triumph of the Will, claiming that film significantly improves the cinematography over this one and attempting to create pathos by stating that both Leni and Hitler were dissatisfied with the final product. This is not true. Both films have the same types of shots meant to glorify the party’s “might”, with presumably the same amount of effectiveness (I wouldn’t know since I don’t buy into Nazism). There might be some truth to both individuals having some level of dissatisfaction with the product, but that is clearly not the main reason why this was removed from circulation a year later and replaced with Triumph. This action…
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For autistic/OCD reasons this year I needed to watch a documentary made in 1933 and this is the only one available. Figured I get it out of the way now and not later this year when it comes true 😞
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The infamous Leni Riefenstahl Nazi propaganda documentary of the 5th Party Rally of the Nazi Party. Riefenstahl captured the romanticism of the Nazi movement with many thousands of S.A. soldiers lined up to honor Hitler and his passionate speeches about restoring Germany's pride after their culture had been infiltrated by foreign influences since the end of World War 1. Powerful stuff and interesting from a historical perspective.
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An historical document
Yeah, about that...
In this case the medium is the message: the 1933 Nazi Party Congress really did happen in Nuremberg, but every single image you see in this film was chosen and manipulated and arranged to make everything bigger and better and more powerful, and much much more emotional; the historicity lies in the fact that this was essentially a rough draft for Reifenstahl's coverage of the next year's event in her more polished Triumph of the Will. And that's it.
But that's not to say it's a useless film. Watch this with a careful eye, and try to see exactly how the B-roll shots are used, how certain shots of Hitler and the other speakers…
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"Sieg des Glaubens" ist die Dokumentation des Reichsparteitags der NSDAP in Nürnberg vom September 1933. Neben interessanten Stadtansichten Nürnbergs vor der Zerstörung der Stadt, die die nationalsozialistische Politik verursachte, gibt es einige eindrucksvolle Paraden insbesonsere von Hitlerjugend, SA und SS, und suggestiv-artifizielle Kameraeinstellungen von Leni Riefenstahl und ihren 3 Kameraleuten, die jedoch noch nicht so meisterhaft sind, wie im Jahr darauf mit "Triumpf des Willens". Inhaltlich gibt's nicht viel, man feierte sich vor allem selbst, da man es nun, 1933, nach 15 Jahren Parteiarbeit, endlich an die Spitze der Macht geschafft hatte. Und man versprach, dass so etwas wie der November 1918 nicht wieder geschehen werde. Stimmt, es kam noch schlimmer! Interessant ist, auf Hitlers Augen in den Nahaufnahmen zu achten: sie irren völlig wild hin und her - entweder war er kamerascheu, oder er überspielte massive Unsicherheiten. Wahrscheinlich beides.
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More of the same, or rather, a first stab at Riefenstahl's boring though of course not completely talent-free proto-insta fascho snazz, tiring self-sameness of image and world, map and territory, rhetorics and history. Branched off into an alternate strand of history, without all the killing, the NS sure would have made a perfectly nice playground for all kinds of braindead camp aesthetics.