Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Original title: Olympia - Fest der Schönheit
Duration: 104 min
Release date: 1938-06-02
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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.

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Olympia - Fest der Schönheit

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Sheigo Arai
Sheigo Arai
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Albert Bachmann
Albert Bachmann
as Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)
Daniel Barrow
Daniel Barrow
as Self - Single Sculls Rower, USA (uncredited)
Jack Beresford
Jack Beresford
as Self - Rower, Britain (uncredited)
Ralf Berzsenyi
Ralf Berzsenyi
as Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Hungary (uncredited)
Ferenc Csík
Ferenc Csík
as Self - Swimmer, Hungary (uncredited)
Richard Degener
Richard Degener
as Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)
Willemijntje den Ouden
Willemijntje den Ouden
as Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)
Charles des Jammonières
Charles des Jammonières
as Self - Free Pistol, France (uncredited)
Velma Dunn
Velma Dunn
as Self - Platfom Diver, USA (uncredited)
Konrad Frey
Konrad Frey
as Self - Gymnastics, Germany (uncredited)
Marjorie Gestring
Marjorie Gestring
as Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)
Albert Greene
Albert Greene
as Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)
Tetsuo Hamuro
Tetsuo Hamuro
as Self - 1st Place: 200m Breaststroke, Japan (uncredited)
Josef Hasenöhrl
Josef Hasenöhrl
as Self - Single Sculls Rower, Austria (uncredited)
Heinz Hax
Heinz Hax
as Self - Rapid-Fire Pistol, Germany (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
as Self (uncredited)
Alois Hudec
Alois Hudec
as Self - Gymnastics, Czechoslovakia (uncredited)
Cornelius Johnson
Cornelius Johnson
as Self - High Jump Winner (uncredited)
Wladyslaw Karas
Wladyslaw Karas
as Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Poland (uncredited)
Adolph Kiefer
Adolph Kiefer
as Self - Swimmer, USA (uncredited)
Masaji Kiyokawa
Masaji Kiyokawa
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Reizô Koike
Reizô Koike
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Erich Krempel
Erich Krempel
as Self - Free Pistol, Germany (uncredited)
Käthe Köhler
Käthe Köhler
as Self - Platform Diver, Germany (uncredited)
Paul Laven
Paul Laven
as Narrator (uncredited)
Eugen Mack
Eugen Mack
as Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)
Hideko Maehata
Hideko Maehata
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Shōzō Makino
Shōzō Makino
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Rie Mastenbroek
Rie Mastenbroek
as Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)
Jack Medica
Jack Medica
as Self - Swimmer, USA (uncredited)
Glenn Morris
Glenn Morris
as Self - Decathlon, USA (uncredited)
Dorothy Poynton
Dorothy Poynton
as Self - Diver, USA (uncredited)
Katherine Rawls
Katherine Rawls
as Self - Springboard Diver, USA (uncredited)
Michael Reusch
Michael Reusch
as Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)
Elbert Root
Elbert Root
as Self - Platform Diver, USA (uncredited)
Willy Rögeberg
Willy Rögeberg
as Self - Small-Bore Rifle, Norway (uncredited)
Aleksanteri Saavala
Aleksanteri Saavala
as Self - Gymastics, Finland (uncredited)
Alfred Schwarzmann
Alfred Schwarzmann
as Self - Gymnastics, Germany (uncredited)
Gustav Schäfer
Gustav Schäfer
as Self - Single Sculls Rower, Germany (uncredited)
Johanna Selbach
Johanna Selbach
as Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)
Neda Senff
Neda Senff
as Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)
Erwin Sietas
Erwin Sietas
as Self - Swimmer, Germany (uncredited)
Herman Stork
Herman Stork
as Self - Platform Diver, USA (uncredited)
Leon Stukelji
Leon Stukelji
as Self - Gymnastics, Yugoslavia (uncredited)
Shigeo Sugiura
Shigeo Sugiura
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Masaharu Taguchi
Masaharu Taguchi
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Noboru Terada
Noboru Terada
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Torsten Ullman
Torsten Ullman
as Self - Shooting Competitor, Sweden (uncredited)
Shunpei Utô
Shunpei Utô
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
Albert van den Weghe
Albert van den Weghe
as Self - Swimmer, USA (uncredited)
Cornelius van Oyen
Cornelius van Oyen
as Self - Rapid-Fire Pistol, Germany (uncredited)
Matthias Volz
Matthias Volz
as Self - Gymnastics, Germany (uncredited)
Conrad von Wangenheim
Conrad von Wangenheim
as Self - Steeplechase, Germany (uncredited)
Catherina Wagner
Catherina Wagner
as Self - Swimmer, Holland (uncredited)
Josef Walter
Josef Walter
as Self - Gymnastics, Switzerland (uncredited)
Marshall Wayne
Marshall Wayne
as Self - Diver, USA (uncredited)
Rolf Wernicke
Rolf Wernicke
as Narrator (uncredited)
Masanori Yusa
Masanori Yusa
as Self - Swimmer, Japan (uncredited)
August von Mackensen
August von Mackensen
as Self (uncredited)
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