Author Topic: Leni Riefenstahl’s Victory of Faith (Sieg Des Glaubens)  (Read 276 times)

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Leni Riefenstahl’s Victory of Faith (Sieg Des Glaubens)
« on: March 17, 2004, 02:33:06 AM »
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A key work in the evolution of Nazi propaganda, Victory of Faith provides an ambitious record of the 1933 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg. Released in early 1934, the film was enthusiastically promoted by the Nazi Party as a masterful promotional tool in presenting itself to the German people. Later that same year, however, Hitler oversaw a bloody purge of many of his “old comrades,” notably the Brownshirt leader Ernst Röhm, whose leading role at the 1933 rally – second only to Hitler – figures prominently in Riefenstahl’s film. Overnight, Röhm became persona non grata, and all references to him were obliterated from the public record. As a result, the thousands of prints of Victory of Faith in circulation across Germany were tracked down and destroyed.


http://www.ihffilm.com/vicoffaitsie1.html

Apparently a complete version was found in Great Britain. Not the propaganda masterpiece that "Triumph of the Will" was but in the same vein.