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Triumph Of The Will
VHS
122 minutes
DD253.25 .T71 1993
Triumph Of The Will may be the most enduringly controversial film ever made, justly both despised and admired. Is it disgusting propaganda? Absolutely. Is it a documentary record of a critical historical moment? Yes...but also no. Perhaps the only thing on which everyone could agree is that it is one of the most terrifying horror movies of all times.
A shamelessly biased, unabashedly subjective rendering of the infamous 1934 Nuremberg rallies of the Nazi party, Triumph Of The Will was commissioned by Hitler from his favorite actress-turned-director Leni Riefenstahl.
The power and purity of Riefenstahl's artistry is such that this incredibly perverse and corrupt film has its own kind of demented integrity. An essential document of Hitler the orator and mesmerizer of the masses (with equally revealing views of cronies Goering, Goebbels, Hess, and Streicher), Triumph Of The Will revels in the monumental architecture of Albert Speer, the formal precision of the marching cadres, and above all, the almost religious exaltation of Hitler as the mystical personification of the dreams and ideals of his people, capturing kinetically with a mastery of technique that is both breathtaking and revolting. It is a film no one who sees can ever forget.
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