Leni Riefenstahl's party commissioned film of the 1934 Nazi rally in Nuremberg has been called the most influential propaganda piece in history and shares a heritage with D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, of an undeniably authoritative film advocating a loathsome agenda. Its technical qualities are consummate with a barely ceasing camera capturing, in minutely staged shots, Hitler, top party members, and hundreds of thousands of minions in all the pomp and circumstance and frightening fervor. *** 1/2 out of ****
Leni Riefenstahl's party commissioned film of the 1934 Nazi rally in Nuremberg has been called the most influential propaganda piece in history and shares a heritage with D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, of an undeniably authoritative film advocating a loathsome agenda. Its technical qualities are consummate with a barely ceasing camera capturing, in minutely staged shots, Hitler, top party members, and hundreds of thousands of minions in all the pomp and circumstance and frightening fervor. *** 1/2 out of ****