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Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl) 1934 Nazi Party Congress (VHS)

The most awesome, frightening and powerful film ever made! Banned for more than 30 years, this extraordinary blend of inspired art, direction and cinematography, now available complete and uncut from International Historic Films, generated perhaps the greatest moral and legal controversy in motion-picture history. The subject of the film is the 1934 session of Nazi Party Congress, and mass rallies involving thousands. Though branded a Nazi propaganda film, it is actually the film of a propaganda subject directed by a non-Nazi woman, Leni Riefenstahl, whose appointment by Hitler for this purpose was resented by propagandists in the Nazi hierarchy. The result is a fascinating expression of one gifted individual's impression of the Hitler movement.

Germany, 1934, VHS, B&W, 115 minutes, English subtitles (printed translation of speeches also included).