Cast: Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goring, et.al
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
This movie stands out as one of the most important and cinematically powerful films ever produced. It is
Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film documenting the Third Reich's 1934 Nuremberg National Socialist Party Rally. It features a cast of of hundreds of thousands -- including Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering and other top officials.
Images of cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, banners lining Nuremberg's streets and Hitler's climactic speech illustrate with chilling clarity how Germany fell under his spell. Not knowing anything about history, someone seeing it today would consider it sensational science fiction. A madman adulated by hundreds of thousands of people. Absolutely surrealistic. You could almost predict the destruction of 50 million people in the next ten years after watching this "thing".
From Wikipedia:
Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and rapidly became one of the best-known examples of propaganda in film history. Riefenstahl's techniques, such as moving cameras, the use of long focus lenses to create a distorted perspective, aerial photography, and revolutionary approach to the use of music and cinematography, have earned Triumph recognition as one of the greatest films in history. Riefenstahl won several awards, not only in Germany but also in the United States, France, Sweden, and other countries. The film was popular in the Third Reich and elsewhere, and has continued to influence movies, documentaries, and commercials to this day.
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