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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

NR 1938 · 104 min · ★ 6.7 · Documentary

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.

Directed by Leni Riefenstahl · Written by Leni Riefenstahl

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