Triumph Of The Will

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The film in the USA was not released until the 70s fearing it could incite people. I first saw it in the 70s on campus when the film was making the rounds.

If you peiy attention yiu can pick out the symbolism of imaes in the intro sequence.

Smiling adoring faces saluting Hitler. I imagine without hyperbole that is what Trump hungers for.

Triumph of the Will - Wikipedia

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Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and became a major example of film used as propaganda. Riefenstahl's techniques—such as moving cameras, aerial photography, the use of long-focus lenses to create a distorted perspective, and the revolutionary approach to the use of music and cinematography—have earned Triumph of the Will recognition as one of the greatest propaganda films in history. Riefenstahl helped to stage the scenes, directing and rehearsing some of them at least fifty times. Riefenstahl won several awards, not only in Germany but also in the United States, France, Sweden and other countries. The film was popular in Nazi Germany, and has continued to influence films, documentaries and commercials to this day.[2] In Germany, the film is not censored but the courts commonly classify it as Nazi propaganda, which requires an educational context to public screenings.[3]

An earlier film by Riefenstahl—The Victory of Faith (Der Sieg des Glaubens)—showed Hitler and SA leader Ernst Röhm together at the 1933 Nazi Party Congress. After Röhm's murder, the party attempted the destruction of all copies. After the war, it was assumed that all copies had been destroyed, including Riefenstahl's personal copy, making it a lost film. In the 1980s, one was discovered in the German Democratic Republic's film archives.[4]

Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight was directly inspired by Triumph of the Will and the United States' response to it.[5]