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Triumph of the Will

Triumph des Willens

1935

Leni Riefenstahl

Documentary, Self: Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels

7.4

5,289

Documentary 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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"	NEU
United States	J. Hoberman The New York Times	"Brilliant, tedious and irredeemably evil, Leni Riefenstahl’s 'Triumph of the Will' (1935) is one of the great conundrums of cinema history."	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Making a supreme effort to put aside the socio-ethical considerations this is, in purely cinematic terms, incredible film-making (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Nazis or no, two hours of marching and speechifying is pretty damn dull; maybe this is what they mean by 'the banality of evil'."	NEG
United States	Entertainment Weekly	"Propaganda at its most lethally seductive"	POS

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