Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
1938-04-21 | 127 min
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
Genres
Documentary
Cast
David Albritton
Arvo Askola
Jack Beresford
Erwin Blask
Sulo Bärlund
Ibolya Csák
Glenn Cunningham
Henri de Baillet-Latour
