This article is about the Nazi propaganda film. For the Canadian television series, see Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will.
Triumph of the Will
German theatrical poster
Directed by
Leni Riefenstahl
Written by
Leni Riefenstahl
Walter Ruttmann
Eberhard Taubert
Produced by
Leni Riefenstahl
Starring
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Viktor Lutze
Hermann Göring
Max Amann
Martin Bormann
Walter Buch
Richard Walther Darré
Otto Dietrich
Sepp Dietrich
Hans Frank
Joseph Goebbels
Jakob Grimminger
Rudolf Hess
Reinhard Heydrich
Konstantin Hierl
Franz Hofer
Robert Ley
Cinematography
Sepp Allgeier
Franz Weihmayr
Edited by
Leni Riefenstahl (uncredited)
Music by
Herbert Windt
Production company
Reichsparteitag-Film
Distributed by
UFA
Release date
28 March 1935 (1935-03-28)
Running time
114 minutes
Country
Germany
Language
German
Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters.[1] The film contains excerpts of speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) troops and public reaction. Its overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power with Hitler as its leader. The film was produced after the Night of the Long Knives, and many formerly prominent SA members are absent.
Following its release in March 1935, it became a major example of film used as propaganda and was well-received at home. Riefenstahl's techniques—such as moving cameras, aerial photography, the use of long-focus lenses to create a distorted perspective, and the revolutionary approach to the use of music and cinematography—have earned Triumph of the Will recognition as one of the greatest propaganda films in history. It won several awards in Germany, France and Italy.[2]
During World War II, Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight was directly inspired by Triumph of the Will and the United States' response to it.[3] In present-day Germany, the film is not censored but the courts commonly classify it as Nazi propaganda, which requires an educational context for public screenings.[4] The film continues to influence films, documentaries and commercials to this day.[5]
^Barsam, Richard M (1975). Filmguide to Triumph of the Will. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 21.
^Rother 2003, p. 71.
^Hagopian, Kevin Jack. "Triumph of the Will – Film Notes". New York Writers Institute. University of Albany."When director Frank Capra was commissioned by the U.S. government to make what became the Why We Fight series of propaganda films in World War II, he screened a copy of Triumph of the Will which had been setd by the U.S. Customs office."
^Julia Jacobs, Philipp Schepp: "Triumph des Willens". In: Thomas Hoeren, Lena Meyer: Verbotene Filme. Berlin 2007, p. 177. (In German.)
^Hinton, David B. (1975). "Triumph of the Will: Document or Artifice?". Cinema Journal. 15 (1). University of Texas Press: 48–57. doi:10.2307/1225104. JSTOR 1225104.
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