Triumph of the Will

Film - 1935

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Triumph of the Will it's a movie with Adolf Hitler, Max Amann, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Hans Frank Full cast. Directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Original title Triumph des Willens, runtime 114 minutes. Genres Documentary, History.

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The triumph of the will of

Federico Tyst Querin

A documentary that reveals a very important moral dilemma and, with it, the marvelous power of the cinematographic medium: is it legitimate to appreciate a Nazi film? Saying that, for example, Battleship Potemkin is a masterpiece does not create a mental short circuit that passes socialist who appreciates it; but saying that Leni Rienfesthal's Triumph of the Will is makes us take that fallacious but almost inevitable step very easily. How should we experience the spectatorship of a film like this? As if it were any other film, that is, allowing yourself to be captured and involved by the protagonists? In this way, however, we would coincide and, in some way, sympathize (or empathize), even if only momentarily, with the protagonists. As if it wasn't a movie? Then it would be non-cinema. In this case, what would it be? Leni Riefensthal, 83 years after the creation of this masterpiece, still manages to disturb those who have observed National Socialism from afar, in space and time, through history books: while watching the film, in fact, I constantly had a profoundly unpleasant sensation, due to the fact of being amazed by the images and, therefore, of loving a work that deifies (and the religious symbolism returns very often during the film) Hitler, probably the most great synonym of "Evil" and "Evil" in the history of humanity. The cinematographic medium, thus, reveals its extraordinary power to cross the limits of ideologies, acting as a mediator between Nazism and anti-Nazism, between Hitlerian apotheosis and disgust for the Führer. The cinematic medium, thus, reveals its universal and universalizing character. Read all

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A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.