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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

6.7/ 1019381h 44mNR

Documentary

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.

Directed by Leni Riefenstahl

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Behind the frames

3 stills

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Sheigo Arai

Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)

Albert Bachmann

Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)

Daniel Barrow

Self - Single Sculls Rower, USA (uncredited)

Jack Beresford

Jack Beresford

Self - Rower, Britain (uncredited)

Ralf Berzsenyi

Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Hungary (uncredited)

Ferenc Csík

Self - Swimmer, Hungary (uncredited)

Richard Degener

Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)

Willemijntje den Ouden

Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)