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Olympia (1938 film), the Glossary

Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin during the Nazi period.^[1]

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1930s sports films
1938 documentary films
Documentary films about Berlin
Documentary films about the Olympics
Films about the 1936 Summer Olympics
Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl
Films scored by Herbert Windt
German sports films

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Carl Diem

Carl Diem (24 June 1882 – 17 December 1962) was a German sports administrator, and as Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games.

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Cinema of Germany

The film industry in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century.

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Close-up

A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Hans Ertl (cameraman)

Hans Ertl (21 February 1908 – 23 October 2000) was a German mountaineer and Nazi propagandist.

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.

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Herbert Windt

Herbert Windt (15 September 1894, Senftenberg, Brandenburg – 2 November 1965, Deisenhofen, now a part of Oberhaching, Bavaria) was a German composer who became one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich.

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Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (later known as the American Peace Mobilization) was founded in Los Angeles in 1936 by Soviet agent Otto Katz and others with the stated purpose of organizing members of the American film industry to oppose fascism and Nazism.

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I.B. Tauris

I.B. Tauris is an educational publishing house and imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Jesse Owens

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

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Jewish Labor Committee

The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) is an American secular Jewish labor organization founded in 1934 to oppose the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (Novemberpogrome), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's nocat.

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Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Neue Deutsche Härte

("New German Hardness"), sometimes abbreviated as NDH, is a subgenre of rock music that developed in Germany and Austria during the early-to-mid 1990s and early 2000s.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Office of Alien Property Custodian

The Office of Alien Property Custodian was an office within the government of the United States during World War I and again during World War II, serving as a custodian to property that belonged to US enemies.

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Olympiastadion (Berlin)

The Olympiastadion is a sports stadium at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany.

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Paul Holzki

Paul Holzki (28 September 1887 in Saadan, Ortelsburg district - 26 January 1960) was a German cinematographer.

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Race (2016 film)

Race is a 2016 biographical sports drama film about African-American athlete Jesse Owens, who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Olympia (1938 film) and Race (2016 film) are films about the 1936 Summer Olympics and films set in Berlin.

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Rammstein

Rammstein ("ramming stone") is a German band formed in Berlin in 1994.

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Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP), also known simply as the Ministry of Propaganda, controlled the content of the press, literature, visual arts, film, theater, music and radio in Nazi Germany.

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Richard Corliss

Richard Nelson Corliss (March 6, 1944 – April 23, 2015) was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Smash cut

A smash cut is a technique in film and other moving picture media where one scene abruptly cuts to another for aesthetic, narrative, or emotional purpose.

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Strength Through Joy

NS Gemeinschaft; KdF) was a German NSDAP-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany.Richard Grunberger, The 12-Year Reich, p. 197, It was part of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the national labour organization at that time. Set up in November 1933 as a tool to promote the advantages of Nazism to the German people and internationally, while also being utilized to ease the process of the rearmament of Germany.

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Stripped (song)

"Stripped" is a song by British electronic music band Depeche Mode.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Time's All-Time 100 Movies

All-TIME 100 Movies is a list compiled by ''TIME'' magazine of the 100 "greatest" films that were released between March 3, 1923—when the first issue of TIME was published—and early 2005, when the list was compiled.

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Tracking shot

In cinematography, a tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.

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Triumph of the Will

Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Olympia (1938 film) and Triumph of the Will are 1930s German films, 1930s German-language films, Black-and-white documentary films, films directed by Leni Riefenstahl, films of Nazi Germany, films scored by Herbert Windt, German documentary films and Nazi propaganda films.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

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Walter Frentz

Walter Frentz (21 August 1907 – 6 July 2004) was a German cameraman, film producer and photographer, who was considerably involved in the picture propaganda of Nazi Germany.

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Walter Gronostay

Walter Gronostay (1906–1937) was a German composer noted for his work on film scores.

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1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics (Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (Spiele der XI.) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.

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1936 Summer Olympics torch relay

The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, following on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games.

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6th Venice International Film Festival

The 6th annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 8 and 31 August 1938.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(1938_film)

Also known as Les Dieux du Stade, Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Voelker, Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker, Olympia 1: Festival of the Nation, Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schoenheit, Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit, Olympia 2: Festival of Beauty, Olympia, Parts 1 and 2.

Olympia (1938 film), the Glossary

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See also

1930s sports films

1938 documentary films

Documentary films about Berlin

Documentary films about the Olympics

Films about the 1936 Summer Olympics

Films directed by Leni Riefenstahl

Films scored by Herbert Windt

German sports films

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