Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Has anybody seen the film "Triumph of the Will" (1934) on DVD ?
I watched it in a cl in college 4 or 5 years ago. The first thing that anyone watching the film needs to understand is that while it is considered a doentary, it is actually a Nazi propoganda film. Riefenstahl was commissioned to make a film by Nazis, for Nazis, and about Nazis. It was supposed to depict Hitler and the Nazis as heros being welcomed on their trip to the rally. The working cl German people were pulled out of poverty by the government but they were not fully aware of the extent that m genocide was occuring. We followed up the viewing of this film with a Holocaust doentary to show the other side of that time/location. I think it was called "The Fog of War" but it's not the more recent doentary by the same name about Robert McNamara. This one was older and maybe a lesser known holocaust doc. It was black and white with lots of CC footage, very intense.
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