Triumph of the Will Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 127 mins
- Year produced:
- 1934
- Director:
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Cast:
- Adolf Hitler
- Max Amann
- Martin Bormann
In 1934, the Nazi government of Germany commissioned a young actress called Leni Riefenstahl to direct a film that would celebrate their rule. With a crew that was huge by the standards of the day, Riefenstahl eventually edited together speeches by Adolf Hitler together with scenes of vast party rallies - and the result would come to define the idea of cinema as propaganda. At once a technically amazing piece of film-making and a glorification of a hateful regime, the film has become a lesson in the ways in which the power of film can be abused.
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Fascinating facts
The director had been given carte blanche by Hitler in the making of this film: effectively, the party rally was the first produced-for-camera event. But at the beginning the word hadn't gotten through to officials at the airport and in the parade. Riefenstahl's cameramen were pushed away from the plane carrying Hitler, which is why we see only one out-of-focus shot of Hitler descending from the plane and why the taxiing of the aircraft is repeated and out of sequence.