Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

1938 · Movie · NR · 127 min

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Its director stated on the record that "anyone who maintains that everything I did was governed by the spirit of the National Socialists has misunderstood me completely, My films were about athletic…" 1. Taken together, the content-balance model places it entertainment-first at 3 of 100 2. Relative to the expected cast make-up for its production origin, on-screen representation registers above the baseline for Black and below it for White 3.

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    Creator statementdirector: "Anyone who maintains that everything I did was governed by the spirit of the National Socialists has misunderstood me completely. My films were about athletic beauty and the human form, not political…"TIME Magazine, August 2002 source ↗
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    Content balanceAdvocacy 3 of 100, tier entertainment-first.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1
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    RepresentationRepresentation vs production-origin baseline: Black 72, White 31.WhatSphere representation model, score_version 1

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Synopsis

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.

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Primary audienceOlder Men
Targeted

Quadrant Scores

Young Men
65
Young Women
21
Older Men
79
Older Women
35
Advocacy3
Entertainment

Audience Representation

White
31
Black
72
Hispanic
48
Asian
44
South Asian
46
Middle Eastern
40
Indigenous
50
Mixed
40
Other
48
LGBTQ+
0

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Cast & Crew

Albert Schattmann (director) · Albert Höcht (director)