Triumph of the Will

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Original title: Triumph des Willens
Year: 1935
Running time: 110 min.
Country: Germany
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Screenwriter: Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann
Music: Herbert Windt, Jacques Offenbach
Cinematography: Sepp Allgeier (B&W)
Cast: Documentary, Self: Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels
Producer: Leni Riefenstahl-Produktion
Genre: Documentary | Nazism. Propaganda
Synopsis: Triumph of the Will is a propaganda film with elements of a documentary by the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, chronicling the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. It is one of the best-known propaganda films in the history of the cinema.

Critics' reviews

"It is a terrible film, paralyzingly dull, simpleminded, overlong... (...) It is not a 'great movie' in the sense that the other films in this group are great, but it is 'great' in the reputation it has and the shadow it casts"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Brilliant, tedious and irredeemably evil, Leni Riefenstahl’s 'Triumph of the Will' (1935) is one of the great conundrums of cinema history."

J. Hoberman: The New York Times
"Nazis or no, two hours of marching and speechifying is pretty damn dull; maybe this is what they mean by 'the banality of evil'."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
"Propaganda at its most lethally seductive"

Entertainment Weekly
"Making a supreme effort to put aside the socio-ethical considerations this is, in purely cinematic terms, incredible film-making (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

David Parkinson: Empire

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