Triumph of the Will Movie Review
Triumph of the Will Review
"Triumph of the Will" Overview
Rating: NR
1934
Cast and Crew
Director :Producer : Leni Riefenstahl
Screenwiter : Leni Riefenstahl,Walter Ruttmann
Starring : Adolf Hitler,Otto Dietrich,Rudolf Hess,Heinrich Himmler
For all its beautiful scenic shots of old Germany, Leni Riefenstahl's
controversial documentary features an awful lot of sequences of Nazi
talking-heads speechifying to the troops. And if you've seen one long tracking
shot of the rank and file, you've really seen 'em all. Propaganda films don't
get much more enthralling than this, but that doesn't mean Triumph of the Will
is all that interesting in the 2000s. It's a reminder of the past and of the
power of the moving image, for sure, but more than anything we look at the
Nazis and roll our eyes, content that we're seeing a bygone era of loonies.
The DVD features a stuffy historian's commentary, droning on and on about why
the Hitler Youth (for example) are collecting wood. (He says it's to cook
sausages and sauerkraut, in case you're wondering.)
Aka Triumph des Willens.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
