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Triumph of the Will, is the legendary propaganda documentary of the Third Reich's 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally. Commissioned by Hitler in 1934 and directed by Leni Riefenstahl, this documentary covers the events of the Sixth Nuremberg Party Congress. Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and rapidly became one of the better-.. Read more

Director	Leni Riefenstahl
Genres	Documentary, Television, World Cinema

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  Truly moving stuff
  
  Beautifully filmed and directed, it?s a great shame this work hasn?t been digitally re mastered.
  
  All too easy to name call, you have to remember that... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - A.S
  - Wales
  - 08 Dec 2004 at 00:59
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  Important viewing
  
  Beautifully filmed Nazi propaganda film that starts with lots of cavorting Aryan youths and ends with a number of impressively massive Nurenburg rallies. It'... read more »
  
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- - Ferry41
  - 190 reviews
  - Oxford
  - 25 Sep 2011 at 17:42
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  essential
  
  I think people interested in the history of 'film' should not be discouraged from enjoying Triumph of the Will for what it is - a masterful and awe ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - uk
  - 11 Jul 2010 at 14:36
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  Just carrying out orders....too enthusiastically.
  
  This is a fascinating film and important in understanding the appeal of fascism to an otherwise rational people.
  
  Leni Riefanstahl claimed after the ... read more »
  
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- - BarnesleyBill
  - 13 reviews
  - East Yorkshire
  - 05 May 2010 at 19:37
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  uncomfortable viewing
  
  not particularly pleasant viewing matter this film is however essential viewing. From a filmakers point of view its a turning point in modern cinema as ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - York
  - 05 Feb 2010 at 13:23
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  Ultimately fairly tedious
  
  Though regarded as a film classic, it is ultimately rather long and tedious, even if it is of historical interest.
  
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- - Antollamh
  - 48 reviews
  - Sheffield
  - 17 Apr 2009 at 21:25
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  Triiumph of the Will
  
  I hired this film to share with my partner who is studying the history of Nazism. I found it unappealing and boringly repetitive. He found it added a little to ... read more »
  
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- - TessB
  - 5 reviews
  - Llandysul
  - 11 Apr 2009 at 17:39
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  - 0
  Bravura Hitler performance!
  
  Crash! Bang! Wallop! What a movie! This has to rank up there with the venerable Adolf Hitler' s finest performances in his canonical oeuvre. The ... read more »
  
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- - BrindleyBeBarassedboutBombsquare
  - 43 reviews
  - Cardiff
  - 13 Sep 2008 at 18:59
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  An important history lesson
  
  Firstly, if you enjoy the faintly homoerotic sight of hundreds of slightly underweight men with dreadful haircuts doing jolly, manly and chippy-chappy things in... read more »
  
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- - SisterKaff
  - 48 reviews
  - Abingdon, Oxfordshire
  - 01 Sep 2008 at 21:37
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  Triumph of the Will
  
  A cinema masterpiece, the work Leni Riefenstahl created in this film is outstanding using techniques never before seen. It is an excellent document of the time... read more »
  
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  - Brighton
  - 13 Jul 2008 at 21:40
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  Good for its time
  
  Leni Riefenstahl was called 'one of Hitler's women'.
  
  She said that she never had any intention of falling under Hitler's influence ... read more »
  
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- - JamesT
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  - Chorley
  - 13 Jul 2008 at 11:50
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- - 44
  - 20
  Truly moving stuff
  
  Beautifully filmed and directed, it?s a great shame this work hasn?t been digitally re mastered.
  
  All too easy to name call, you have to remember that... read more »
  
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- 57951
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - A.S
  - Wales
  - 08 Dec 2004 at 00:59
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  Mesmerising
  
  It is a measure of Leni Riefenstahl's skill as a film-maker that, even when the subject of her work has arguably become the most vilified ideology of the ... read more »
  
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- - Lionel Laurent
  - London
  - 23 Dec 2004 at 23:16
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  Hitlers empty rhetoric
  
  I first saw this film around 30 years ago when our history teacher showed it to us and then proceeded to take it apart and analyse it frame by frame, explaining... read more »
  
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- - CyberDan
  - London UK
  - 29 Sep 2004 at 12:44
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  A Dark Historical Masterpiece
  
  This film (somewhat long winded at times) is a true masterpiece. Forget the awful subject matter, you can see how the folk of the day could be taken in by this... read more »
  
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- - YorkshireBok
  - East Yorkshire
  - 28 Oct 2004 at 22:33
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  Heil Riefenstahl
  
  This is probably the greatest film as propaganda ever made. From the very start with the ariel photography of Hitler's arrival like a god from the sky Leni ... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
  - 552 reviews
  - London
  - 25 Jan 2005 at 16:05
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  Hitlers Film-maker
  
  Brilliantly photographed, perhaps heavy going in places as political speeches always are. This 1934 Nazi Propaganda film shows how Hitler and his followers sold... read more »
  
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- - BOND007
  - WEST MIDLANDS
  - 15 Jan 2004 at 23:03
- - 4
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  Ahead Of Its Time
  
  It is hard to believe that this was commisioned over 70 years ago. Tens of thousands of people all gathered for a massive jamboree. The organisational ... read more »
  
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- - Tyke
  - Yorkshire
  - 14 May 2005 at 22:05
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  A Cautionary Tale
  
  Leni Refenstahl was, unquestionably, a brilliant filmmaker. But unlike such artists as Fritz Lang--who fled Germany rather than make the films the Nazis wanted ... read more »
  
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- - Jacobw
  - London
  - 19 Jan 2004 at 15:53
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  If You Like Your History
  
  A record of the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremburg. It's difficult to describe feelings about this film because it is pure political propoganda, whilst the ... read more »
  
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  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 12 Jul 2005 at 09:38
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  A word of caution
  
  Obviously a cinematic and aesthetic achievement but the notion that the somehow is simply a benign depiction of a peoples love for thier leader who went a bit ... read more »
  
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- 191655
- - a customer
  - London, England
  - 09 Jan 2006 at 17:56

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  Triumph of the Will, is the legendary propaganda documentary of the Third Reich's 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally. Commissioned by Hitler in 1934 and directed by Leni Riefenstahl, this documentary covers the events of the Sixth Nuremberg Party Congress. Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and ...