Triumph des Willens
Screenplay by Leni Riefenstahl
1. Dark Screen for 1:05 minutes with establishing themes through music score
FADE IN SLOWLY
2. Image of Nazi eagle:
CAMERA SLOWLY PANS LOWER TO REVEAL
3. Mammoth stone pylon which serves [as] appropriate [background for] main
titles in this sequence:
TITLES: (In Fraktur TYPE)--
TRIUMPH DES WILLENS
SCREEN GOES DARK AS TITLES* CONTINUE:
Documentary of the Reich Party Day 1934
Produced by Order of the Führer
Created by Leni Riefenstahl
On September 5, 1934,
20 years after the outbreak of the World War ...
16 years after the beginning of our suffering ...
19 months after the beginning of the German renaissance ...
*TRANSLATED HERE FROM ORIGINAL LANGUAGE (GERMAN) TO ENGLISH
Adolf Hitler flew again to Nuremberg to review the columns of his
faithful followers...
SCENE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
[PART I HITLER'S ARRIVAL IN NUREMBERG]
4. Mythic mountains of clouds as they continually build to a great
crescendo. OVER SOUNDTRACK IS LIGHT VERSION OF WAGNERIAN THEME.
SHOTS AT
5. Interior cockpit in airplane; clouds can be seen from plane interior.
6. Clouds begin to disperse (exterior) and entire aircraft (Junker-52) can
be spotted in this scene. As aircraft flies overhead,
7. the medieval city of Nuremberg can be seen from below.
8. A Nazi banner flies from an ancient building.
9. Below we get a glimpse of hundreds of brown-shirted storm troopers
marching. Dark shadows of aircraft being cast over marching troops.
STAB AT SYMPHONIC RENDITION OF "HORST WESSEL" SONG AS THIS OCCURS.
CAMERA CUTS TO:
10. Airport: hundreds of thousands of worshipers have gathered at the
airport in order to greet Hitler's approaching plane.
11. Aircraft pulling up onto airfield: two SS men rush to grab hold of the
craft.
QUICK CUTS AT:
12. Expression on the faces of those who await an image of Hitler: a young
Hitler Youth,
13. A woman, with mouth and eyes agape.
CUT TO:
14. Aircraft door being opened. Several Nazi dignitaries descended aircraft
during this scene: Goebbels, Dietrich, Schaub and Hitler. Once Hitler
has emerged from the aircraft itself, AUDIBLE EFFECTS OVER SOUNDTRACK
(Nazi cheers of "Sieg Heil"). WAGNERIAN MUSIC SCORE IS HEARD LOUDLY
OVER SOUNDTRACK NOW.
15. Hitler is seen in a private moment, conferring with some of his men.
CUTS TO:
16. Automobile motorcade: Hitler is now being driven through the airport in
his Mercedes. Shouts and cheers of "Sieg Heil" RING OUT OVER SOUNDTRACK.
THIS SCENE CHANGES QUICKLY TO
17. Hitler's motorcade through Central Nuremberg.
18. A ray of sunlight reflects off Hitler's palm during the Nazi salute.
19. Various SHOTS AT BUILDINGS SURROUNDING MOTORCADE: they seem to come
alive during this scene as banners, flags, streamers, etc., all seem to
move by themselves to the beat on the SOUNDTRACK that is similar to
Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen."
20. Expressions of the civilians and NSDAP members aligning Hitler's parade
route: the crowd is most enthusiastic at the sight of Hitler in the
motorcade.
21. A young female child and her mother are captured in the next scene
giving Hitler flowers and smiling.
22. CLOSE-UP ANGLE AT HITLER'S FRIENDLY EXPRESSION IN HIS FACE .
23. SHOT AT MOTORCADE CONTINUING. They pass under bridge adorned with
swastika and Prussian banners and symbols.
24. As Hitler looks up during motorcade, we catch a glimpse of
25. Cat sitting in an upstairs window and it too turns to QUICKLY CATCH A
GLIMPSE AT HITLER in the motorcade.
26. LONG SHOT AT MOTORCADE ROLLING THROUGH STREETS OF NUREMBERG.
27. Hitler's automobile pulling up in front of the Hotel Deutscher Hof with
glimpse of Nazi eagle which has been affixed over the entrance of his
hotel.
28. The black SS guard which is all lined up in front of the hotel:
29. CLOSE- UP SHOTS AT SWASTIKA EMBLEMS ON THEIR HELMETS,
30. THEIR BRASS BUCKLES (eagle and swastika),
31. THEIR STREAM-LINED JET-BLACK BOOTS ALL IN A ROW.
32. Hitler exiting his automobile with deputies, giving Nazi salute as
WAGNERIAN SCORE COMES TO FINALE IN THIS SCENE.
33. People gathered outside hotel, shouting:
PEOPLE
(in unison)
"We want our Führer! We want our
Führer!"
AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CHEERS OF "SIEG HEIL" INCREASE IN VOLUME.
34. Hitler on balcony. Martin Bormann appears at window to open balcony
window for Hitler, who steps out, delivering Nazi salute to crowds who
continuously cheer Hitler.
SCENE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
[PART II NIGHT RALLY AT HITLER'S HOTEL]
35. During dark night scene, Prussian banners flutter to the tune of
"Zapfenstreich" as ...
36. ... images of helmets, uniforms, musical instruments (Glöckenspiel) are
all visible in front of Hitler's hotel exterior.
37. Torches provide lighting for this scene. Hitler can be seen standing in
window balcony observing ceremonies.
38. Smoke rises above crowd gathered outside hotel giving nocturnal setting
for this night scene.
DISSOLVES OUT TO:
[PART III DAWN]
39. Dawn sequence: dawn ascends the next morning with the view of
Nuremberg's old church in foreground . MUSIC: Wagner's "Dawn" over
soundtrack.
40. Village in Nuremberg with ancient rooftops, etc.
41. An unseen hand opens a gabled window, revealing swastika banner that
falls from the top of window.
42. Numerous swastika banners flying from most
43. Old Nuremberg church tower: bell chimes like that of a funeral .
THIS SEQUENCE IS JUXTAPOSED WITH MONTAGE EFFECT:
44. Overhead tent city of workers is visible. Sound of trumpets blowing
replaces audible sound of bell chimes now.
45. Hitler Youth boy blowing trumpet fanfares with HJ banners attached to
trumpets.
46. SA men rising from their tents,
47. shaving,
48. bathing,
49. dressing.
50. Ritualistic scene of camaraderie that demonstrates "togetherness."
51. HJ bandleader writing home in tent interior.
52. Horseplay with youths playing games, wrestling, etc.
53. Boy is tossed up in the air in a roughhouse sprint game.
THIS SCENE GIVES WAY TO NEXT SEQUENCE:
54. Peasants dressed in their traditional costumes march through the
streets. MUSIC: traditional Bavarian folk music over soundtrack.
55. Multi-aged peasants -- young and old parading, carrying the rewards of
their livelihood as gifts.
56. Tongue in cheek shot at boy with his fingers in his mouth is presented
at the same time as
57. Hitler arrives on the scene flanked by Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the
German Labor Front (DAF) and a rather thin NSDAP officer.
58. the young boy with his fingers in his mouth.
59. Image of Hitler is caught inspecting a whole contingent of workers from
Ley's new organization.
60. Hitler and Ley confer over the men.
61. Hitler asks a boy in the formation a question (silent)
and
62. He (the worker boy) silently replies (a music score is over soundtrack:
"We March through Greater Berlin")
63. Hitler returns to his car in a triumphant moment, salutes the people
(Nazi cheers over soundtrack as well as main Wagnerian theme from the
film is played).
64. People in turn also salute back.
65. CLOSE-UP SHOTS AT FACES OF WOMEN, who reveal an almost seductive
expression on their faces.
66. MEDIUM LONG SHOT OF HITLER'S MOTORCADE driving away as Nazi cheers can
be heard over soundtrack.
67. MEDIUM SHOT: GOEBBELS IS SEEN IN ONE OF THE AUTOMOBILES, directing the
driver.
68. CLOSER ANGLE AT RUDOLF HESS, DEPUTY FUHRER, RIDING IN ONE OF THE SEATS
OF THE AUTOMOBILE, SALUTING TO THE PEOPLE IN FOREGROUND.
SCENE FADES OUT TO :
[PART IV OPENING OF THE VI REICH PARTY CONGRESS: LUITPOLDHALLE]
FADE IN (audible sounds of fanfares and drums over soundtrack before
picture action fades in)
69. Illuminated shot of Nazi eagle and swastika.
70. Massed NSDAP Party standards in interior Luitpoldhalle , night.
71. SA men holding banners and standards, together, massed in hall.
72. CLOSE ANGLE: Rudolf Hess approaches speaker's podium, dressed in NSDAP
uniform to deliver the keynote opening address:
HESS
"I am opening this, our Sixth Party
Congress, in respectful remembrance of
Field Marshal, and President of the
Reich ...
73. Various dignitaries of the time are pictured in this scene -- various
members of the newly formed Wehrmacht: General von Blomberg, Grand
Admiral Raeder, etc.
74. Shot back at Hess at podium:
HESS
... Von Hindenburg, who has passed into
eternity. We remember the Field Marshal as
the first soldier of the ...
75. Profile of Wehrmacht soldier's helmet with swastika emblem on it.
HESS
(off camera)
... Great War, and, thus, also remember
our ...
76. Standards and banners are shown.
HESS
(off camera)
... fallen comrades. ...
77. Shot back at Hess delivering address:
HESS
... I welcome the esteemed
representatives of ...
78. Foreign state representatives are pictured in this scene -- especially
notable are those from Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Fascist Spain.
HESS
(off camera)
... foreign nations who ...
79. Shot back at Hess now:
HESS
... honor the Party by their presence,
and the Party, in sincere friendship,
welcomes especially the representatives
of the ...
80. Again shots of Wehrmacht generals, Von Blomberg and Raeder of the newly
formed Reichskriegsmarine.
HESS
(off camera)
... military forces ...
81. Shot back at Hess now:
HESS
... now under the command of the Führer...
(applause)
82. Shots of Hitler, seated.
83. Shot at audience surrounding Hitler.
84 . Shot back at Hess:
HESS
... My Führer, ...
85. Shot back at Hitler seated.
86. Shots of Nazi banners, flags and NSDAP standards held by SA men in
Audience.
HESS
(off camera)
... around you are gathered the flags and
standards of National Socialism. ...
87. Back at Hess again, at podium: closer angle, though.
HESS
... Only when their cloth ...
88. NSDAP Party standards, flags and banners again.
HESS
(off camera)
... will have decayed, will humanity
looking back, be able to comprehend what
you, ...
89. Shot at Hitler's profile again.
HESS
(off camera)
... my Führer, mean to Germany. ...
(applause )
90. LONG SHOT: audience in massed hall, then:
91. Hess back at podium, smiling at enthusiasm of audience.
92. Hitler seated near podium again.
HESS
(off camera)
... You are Germany, when you act, the
nation acts, when you judge, the people
judge! ...
(applause, OC)
Hitler's expression is one of the utmost appreciation; then:
93. Back at Hess:
HESS
... Our gratitude is the pledge to stand
by you, through good days and bad...
94. Shots of Goering, Bormann, etc.
HESS
(off camera)
... come whatever may! ...
95. (applause on audio) View of massed attendance in hall; then:
96. Back to Hess at podium.
HESS
... Thanks to your leadership, Germany
will achieve her aim to become the
homeland -- ...
(applause)
97. An elderly woman is seen expressing her approval to Hess' remarks
during the speech; then:
HESS
(off camera)
... the homeland for all Germans in the
world. ...
98. (applause) Hitler pictured seated near podium again.
HESS
(off camera)
... You have been the guarantor of
victory ...
99. Back at Hess again:
HESS
... you are for us the guarantor of
peace! Adolf Hitler!"
Nazi cheers of "heil" over soundtrack as ...
100. ... Hitler congratulates Hess by shaking his hand; Julius Streicher,
Gauleiter of Upper Franconia stands in background smiling.
SCENE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
101. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "An Excerpt from the Führer's Official Proclamation, Read to the
Audience by Von Wagner"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS, DISSOLVING INTO:
102. MEDIUM SHOT OF VON WAGNER , GAULEITER OF BAVARIA, STANDING AT SPEAKER'S
PODIUM NOW, READING FROM PROCLAMATION:
VON WAGNER
"No revolution could last forever without
leading to total anarchy. Just as the
world cannot exist on wars, so they
cannot exist on revolutions. Nothing truly
great on this earth has ruled for
millennia and was forged in decades.
The tallest tree has the strongest growth
behind it. What must withstand centuries
must also need centuries for it to become
strong!"
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
103. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Rosenberg."
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS TO:
104. Alfred Rosenberg, Reich Leader of the Foreign Policy Office and
Commissioner for Supervision of Ideological Education of the NSDAP
speaks:
ROSENBERG
"It is our unshakable belief in ourselves,
it is our hope for today's valued youth,
who courageously are charging forward and
will one day be called upon to continue
the efforts begun in the stormy years of
the 1918 Revolution, an event which has
gripped all of Germany and the historical
importance of which is already being
embodied today by the entire German
Reich."
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
105. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Dietrich."
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS TO:
106. Otto Dietrich, Reich Press Chief speaks:
DIETRICH
"Truth is the basis on which the power of
the press stands and falls. Our only
demand of the foreign press and our own
press, is that they report the truth
about Germany."
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
107. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Todt."
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS TO:
108. Fritz Todt, General Inspector for the Reich Autobahn system speaks :
TODT
"The construction on the Reich autobahn
system has begun in 51 places in the
Reich. Although this is just the
beginning, 52,000 men are already employed
on the construction of these new roads,
and another 100,000 men are employed at
construction sites, in supplying the
building trade industry with materials,
and in bridge construction."
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
109. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Reinhardt"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS TO:
110. Fritz Reinhardt, Chief of Official NSDAP School for Oration speaks:
REINHARDT
"Wherever one looks, progress develops,
improvements are being made, and new
values created. And wherever one looks,
since last year, there is much industrious
activity [that] will continue in the
future."
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
111. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Darré"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS TO:
112. Walter Darré, Reich Minister of Agriculture speaks:
DARRE
"The continued welfare and prosperity of
our farmers is the first condition for
the success of our industry, our domestic
trade and the German exports."
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
113 . BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Streicher"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
114. Julius Streicher, Gauleiter of Upper Franconia speaks:
STREICHER
"A people that does not protect its racial
purity will perish!"
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
115. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Ley"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
116. Dr. Robert Ley, Leader of the German Labor Front speaks:
LEY
" One thought must alone dominate all our
work: to make the German worker an
upright, upstanding, proud and decent
citizen, enjoying equal rights with the
rest of the Reich!"
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
117. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Frank"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
118. Hans Frank, Reich Minister of Justice speaks:
FRANK
"As chief of the German justice system, I
can only say that since the National
Socialist legal system is the foundation
of the National Socialist State, for us,
our supreme Führer is also supreme judge.
And since we know how sacred the
principles of justice are to our Führer,
we can assure you, fellow citizens, that
your life and existence is secure in this
National Socialist State of order,
freedom, and law!"
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
119. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Goebbels"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
120. Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda and Popular
Enlightenment speaks:
GOEBBELS
"May the bright flame of enthusiasm
never be extinguished. It alone gives
light and warmth to the creative art of
modern political propaganda. This art
rose from the depths of the people and in
order to search out its roots and locate
its power, it must always return to these
depths. It may be all right to possess
power based upon guns; it is however
better and more gratifying to win and
also to champion the hearts of the
people."
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT OF FOCUS:
121. BLURRED TITLE WHICH SLOWLY COMES INTO FOCUS:
TITLE: "Hierl"
TITLE DISSOLVES OUT TO:
122. Konstantin Hierl, Chief of the Reich Labor Service Corps speaks:
HIERL
"The German people are today mentally and
spiritually mature enough for the
introduction of the new Reich Labor
Service. We await the order of the
Führer!"
(applause)
DISSOLVES OUT TO:
SCENE DISSOLVES INTO FOLLOWING SEQUENCE WITH THE NEW BANNER OF THE
REICHSARBEITSDIENST (REICH LABOR SERVICE) FLUTTERING IN THE WIND:
[PART V REICH LABOR SERVICE DAY]
123. CLOSE-UP VIEW: LABOR SERVICE (RAD) BANNER FLUTTERING IN THE WIND.
BACKGROUND RAD TRUMPET FANFARES OVER SOUNDTRACK.
DISSOLVES OUT TO:
124. MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT OF HITLER AND HIERL STANDING TOGETHER ON EXTERIOR
VIEW OF PLATFORM ON ZEPPLINWEISE PARADE FIELD. OC CHEERS OF THE RAD
MEN GATHERED AS HIERL STEPS TO THE MICROPHONE TO ANNOUNCE:
HIERL
" My Führer! I report 52,000 Labor
Services men for review."
125. ANGLE SHOT AT HITLER, STEPPING FORTH TO MICROPHONE AS HIERL STEPS BACK:
HITLER
"Hail, my Labor Service men!"
RAD MEN
(in unison, OC)
"Hail, my Führer!"
126. FULL SHOT OF ZEPPLINWEISE PARADE FIELD: over 200,000 uniformed men are
gathered, each wielding work shovels.
127. CLOSE-UP OF ONE OF THE RAD GROUP LEADERS, who speaks for the men
assembled:
RAD GROUP LEADER
"Present shovels! At ease."
128. CLOSE ANGLE AT SHOVELS AT EASE IN FULL VIEW OF ZEPPLINWEISE PARADE
FIELD.
128. PAN SHOT AT RAD MEN GATHERED ON ZEPPLINWEISE PARADE FIELD: CAMERA
GLIDES SMOOTHLY ON TRACKS CAPTURING "FIRST PERSON" PARTICIPATION OF RAD
SPEAKERS IN FOLLOWING SHOT:
129. CLOSE ANGLE AT: HITLER AND HIERL STANDING TOGETHER ON PLATFORM.
130. CLOSE-UP ANGLE AT RAD GROUP LEADER, WITH FANATICAL EXPRESSION ON HIS
FACE AS HE SPEAKS FOR THE GROUP:
RAD GROUP LEADER
"Here we stand ...
131. SHOTS OF CLOSE-UP ANGLES AT RAD BOOTS
RAD GROUP LEADER
(OC )
... ready to carry Germany into a new
era. ...
132. BACK AT RAD GROUP LEADER NOW:
RAD GROUP LEADER
... Germany! Comrade, where are you
from?"
133. CLOSE ANGLE AT RAD MAN:
1st RAD MAN
"From Friesland."
134. CLOSE ANGLE AT RAD GROUP LEADER:
RAD GROUP LEADER
"And you, comrade, where are you from?"
135. 2nd RAD MAN:
2nd RAD MAN
"From Bavaria."
136. RAD GROUP LEADER:
RAD GROUP LEADER
"And you?"
137. CLOSE: 3rd RAD MAN:
3rd RAD MAN
"From Kaiserstuhl."
138. CLOSE SHOTS AT ADDITIONAL RAD MEN ASSEMBLED:
4th RAD MAN
"From Pomerania."
139. CLOSE ANGLE AT 5th RAD MAN:
5th RAD MAN
"And from Königsberg."
140. CLOSE AT 6th RAD MAN:
6th RAD MAN
"From Silesia."
141. CLOSE AT 7th RAD MAN:
7th RAD MAN
"From the seaside. "
142. CLOSE AT 8th RAD MAN:
8th RAD MAN
"From the Black Forest."
143. CLOSE AT 9th RAD MAN:
9th RAD MAN
"From Dresden."
144. CLOSE AT 10th RAD MAN:
10th RAD MAN
"From the Danube."
145. CLOSE AT 11th RAD MAN:
11th RAD MAN
"From the Rhine."
146. CLOSE AT 12th RAD MAN:
12th RAD MAN
"And from the Saar."
147. CLOSE ANGLE AT RAD GROUP LEADER.
QUICKLY CUT TO:
148. VISUAL SYMBOLISM: NAZI BANNER
RAD GROUP LEADER
(OC)
"One Nation, ...
149. CLOSE AT PROFILE OF HITLER
RAD GROUP LEADER
(OC)
... one Leader, ...
150. CLOSE-UP OF WOODEN NAZI EAGLE STRUCTURE OVERLOOKING ZEPPLINWEISE FIELD
RAD GROUP LEADER
(OC)
... one Reich. ...
151. CLOSE-UP FLUTTERING NAZI BANNER AGAIN
RAD GROUP LEADER
(OC)
... Germany!"
152 . SHOT BACK AT RAD MEN IN FORMATION AGAIN:
RAD MEN
(in unison)
"Today we are working together in the
bogs, quarries, in the sandpits, on the
dikes of the North Sea. We plant trees
and rustling forests. We build roads
from village to village, from town to
town. We create new land for the farmer.
Fields and forests, acres and bread --
for ...
153. CLOSE-UP SHOT OF HITLER'S PROFILE AGAIN, WITH FLUTTERING NAZI BANNER IN
BACKGROUND
RAD MEN
(in unison)
... Germany!"
MUSIC: "Ich Hatte einen Kameraden" ("I Once Had a Comrade")
154. MEDIUM ANGLE AT RAD MEN DIPPING BANNERS SLOWLY TOWARDS GROUND.
RAD MEN
( in unison)
"As formally at Langemark, at Tannenberg,
at Liege, at Verdun, at the Somme, the
Duna, in Flanders, in the West ...
155. CLOSE-UP ANGLE AT RAD MEN
RAD MEN
(in unison)
... in the East, in the South, on land,
on the seas, and in the skies -- comrades
whom the Red Front and Reaction have
killed ... you lay not dead, you live ...
156. CLOSE-UP SHOT OF HITLER'S PROFILE AGAIN
RAD MEN
(in unison)
... in Germany!"
157. DIFFERENT ANGLE OF HITLER THIS TIME: HITLER ADDRESSES THE MEN OF THE
RAD FROM THE PODIUM:
HITLER
"Men of the Labor Service! For the first
time you appear before me for review and
therefore the entire German nation. ...
158. CLOSE-UP SHOTS OF RAD MEN HOLDING THEIR NEW BANNERS:
HITLER
(OC)
... You represent a great idea, and we
know for millions of our fellow
followers the concept ...
159. BACK AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... of labor will no longer be a dividing
factor but one of unification and that no
longer will there be anybody in Germany
who will regard manual labor less highly
than any other form of work. ...
160. LONG SHOT OF ZEPPLINWEISE FIELD OF THE MASSED RAD MEN IN ATTENDANCE.
HITLER
(OC)
... The whole nation will have to go
through your school. ...
161. BACK AT HITLER NOW:
HITLER
... A time will come when no German will
be able to join the community of this
nation unless he has first been a member
of yours first. And you know that not
only the hundreds of thousands at ...
162. WIDE ANGLE AT RAD MEN GATHERED IN PARADE FIELD:
HITLER
(OC)
... Nuremberg are looking at you, but, at
this moment, ...
163. CLOSE BACK AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... that all of Germany is looking at you
for the very first time. And I know just
as you are serving Germany in loyal
devotion, Germany today sees, in proud
joy, its sons marching with you in your
ranks!"
164. FULL SCREEN VIEW OF RAD SOLDIERS MARCHING IN FRONT OF CAMERA, SINGING
"WIR SIND ARBEIT-SOLDATEN" ("We Are the Work-Soldiers ") UNTIL THEY ARE
IN FULL VIEW OF SCREEN UNTIL SCENE
DISSOLVES OUT TO:
[PART VI SA NIGHT RALLY]
165. VARIED ANGLES AT EXTERIOR NIGHT CEREMONY OF AN SA RALLY ON THE
ZEPPLINWEISE PARADE FIELD.
MUSIC: "VOLK ANS GEWEHR" (" People to Arms")
Smoke bellows high above wooden eagle and swastika structure of the
Zepplinweise arena. OVER SOUNDTRACK ARE COUNTLESS "Sieg Heils" AND
CHEERING.
166. PAN SHOT AT SA MEN standing in formation, holding torches lighting this
sequence.
167. CAMERA MOVES ALONG, capturing SA men, banners, torches seen in
SILHOUETTE VIEW IN HAZY SMOKE.
SA MEN IN UNISON
"Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"
168. CLOSER ANGLE AT VIKTOR LUTZE, SA CHIEF OF STAFF, saluting as he climbs
wooden staircase to speaker's platform.
LUTZE
"Comrades! Many of you here this night
know me from those early years of our
movement when I marched rank and file
with you as an SA man. I am still very
much an SA man today just as I was
then. ...
(applause, Nazi cheers)
169. VARIOUS SHOTS OF SA MEN GATHERED ON PARADE FIELD ARE CAPTURED IN THIS
SCENE; THEN:
170. BACK TO LUTZE:
LUTZE
... We SA men have known only one thing:
loyalty, and fighting for the Führer!"
(applause, cheers, heils)
171. SHOT AT LUTZE descending staircase, saluting; being cheered as he does.
172. MEDIUM CLOSE ANGLE AT Lutze being led to his automobile in the Exterior
arena: he is now being driven around the arena area, packed with
jubilant SA storm troopers. Cheers provide entire audio for this
sequence.
173. FULL SHOT AT giant fireworks display which gives way to audio change in
this sequence: martial music mixed with additional cheers.
174. Various shots of storm troopers seated on the ground;
175. CLOSE at blazing fireworks pinwheel;
176. CLOSE at bonfire gathering of storm troopers;
177. CLOSE AT aerial fireworks display again, but different angle;
178. MEDIUM CLOSE ANGLE at contingent of SA men wielding torches;
179. CLOSE ANGLES AT SA men seated on ground singing, laughing, chanting;
tossing wood onto bonfire.
SCENE FADES OUT TO:
FADE IN
[PART VII HITLER YOUTH DAY RALLY]
180. CLOSE-UP AT Hitler Youth trumpet front piece, blowing.
MUSIC: trumpet fanfare sounds from Richard Wagner's "Rienzi" overture
followed by ritualistic drums pounding and then martial music through
this and the following scenes:
181. MEDIUM ANGLE at brown-shirted Hitler Youths gathered in the exterior
stadium during the daytime.
182. CLOSE ANGLE at HJ profiles: various young men and children;
183. CLOSE ANGLE at side profiles of HJ groups;
184. CLOSE ANGLE at HJ band leader with HJ "Glöckenspiel" instrument.
MUSIC: "DIE JUGEND MARSCHIERT" ("Youth Marches") starts in this scene
until HJ leader Baldur von Schirach's address to the massed contingents.
185. HJ hoisted on banner pole top, watching the view; saluting an unseen
Hitler as he does.
186. HJ contingents looking enthusiastic as they await the arrival of Hitler.
187. HJ cheering on Hitler with arms raised in the air in the Nazi salute.
188. HJ boys with arms raised in the salute at what can only be the arrival
of Hitler.
189. CLOSE ANGLE AT Hitler and his adjutants arriving through underground
entrance of the stadium, him, smiling.
190. CLOSE ANGLE AT HJ handing Hitler a bouquet of flowers; Hitler, passing
them on to one of his close adjutants; but Hitler entering exterior
stadium getting right to the point of the rally.
191. MEDIUM ANGLE AT Hitler gathered next to Von Schirach , Rudolf Hess,
Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. Others are present in the
background in this sequence: Schaub, Bormann, others.
192. CLOSE ANGLE AT Rudolf Hess next to Hitler: the Deputy Führer appearing
quite pleased at the sight of the youths who have gathered in the
stadium.
193. CLOSE AT Goebbels peering through binoculars at the youths gathered,
then smiling, almost laughing at the sight as he looks over at Himmler,
who makes no expression nor movement.
194. MEDIUM CLOSE ANGLE AT Von Schirach, looking to Hitler for approval.
195. CLOSE AT Hitler: he nods to Von Schirach, giving him the go ahead for
delivering the opening keynote address:
196. TIGHT ON Von Schirach at microphone:
VON SCHIRACH
"My Führer! My comrades! Again we
experience the hour that makes us happy
and proud. At your order, my Führer, a
young people is facing you -- a young
generation that knows no class, no caste
values. Because you are the example of
the greatest unselfishness in this Reich,
this young generation wants to be
unselfish also. Because you embody the
concept of fidelity for us, we want to be
faithful too. Adolf Hitler, Führer of the
German youth will speak!"
(applause)
197. MEDIUM FULL ANGLE AT youths massed in HJ stadium: all arms stretched
out, saluting.
AUDIO: Nazi cheers of "Sieg Heil" on soundtrack.
198. MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT AT Hitler approaching microphone. Von Schirach stands
directly behind him as the Führer begins to deliver his address to the
youths who have gathered:
HITLER
"My German youth! After one year I have
the opportunity to welcome you here once
again. Those of you who stand here in
this stadium represent only a small
portion of the masses who stand outside
here, all over Germany. ...
199. ANGLES AT blonde-Aryan types gathered:
HITLER
(OC)
... We want you, German boys and German
girls, to absorb all that we expect of
Germany in years to come. ...
200. CLOSE ANGLE BACK AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... We want to be a unified Reich, and
you, my German youth, ...
201 . CLOSER ANGLES AT BLONDE BOYS AGAIN, LOOKING MORE INTENSE-LOOKING THIS
TIME:
HITLER
(OC)
... are to become this Reich. In the
future, we do not want to see any classes
or cliques to develop and they will not
develop among your ranks. The day will
come when we will want to see one Reich,
and you must educate and steel yourselves
for it. We want this people to be
obedient and you must practice this
obedience; we want this people to be
peace-loving but also brave and you must
be peace-loving! ...
(applause, cheers)
202. CLOSE ANGLES AT OTHER INTENSE-LOOKING YOUTHS GATHERED IN STADIUM,
LOOKING EVEN MORE FIERCE THAN EVER:
HITLER
(OC)
... You must therefore be peace-loving
and obedient and courageous at the same
time. ...
(applause)
203. CLOSE ANGLE SHOTS AT FIERCE-LOOKING BOY YOUTHS IN STADIUM:
204. CLOSE ANGLE BACK AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... We do not want this Reich to become
soft; instead, it should be hard, and you
will have to harden yourselves while you
are still young. ...
205. CLOSE ANGLES AT ENTHUSIASTIC YOUTHS GATHERED IN STADIUM AGAIN:
HITLER
(OC)
... You must learn to accept deprivations
without ever collapsing. Regardless of
whatever we create and what we do, we
shall pass away, but in you, Germany will
live on; and when nothing is left of us,
you will hold in your fist the banner
that we tore from nothingness! ...
(applause)
206. ANOTHER CLOSE ANGLE AT THE YOUTHS:
One boy smiling while beating a drum in the audience.
HITLER
(OC)
... And I know that it cannot be otherwise
because ...
207. CLOSE AT Hitler again:
HITLER
... you are flesh from our flesh, blood
from our blood and your very minds are
filled with the same spirit which
dominates us! ...
(applause)
208. YOUTHS CHEERING; ARMS RAISED IN THE NAZI SALUTE.
209. CLOSE ANGLE BACK AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... It cannot be any different than
united with us. And when the great united
columns of our movement march
victoriously through Germany today, I
know that you will join these columns as
band will join band, drum will join drum
and we know that Germany is before us,
and behind us!"
(applause)
210. MEDIUM FULL ANGLES at the massed youths gathered in HJ stadium,
cheering Hitler on.
211. CLOSE ANGLE at Hitler returning with his adjutants on the podium: Hess,
Goebbels and Von Schirach.
212. CLOSE at Hitler, saluting youths along with Hess and the others.
213. FULL ANGLE AT the stadium; the youths continuously cheer on their
Führer.
214. MEDIUM FULL SHOT AT vast contingent of youths with their arms raised in
salute.
215. MEDIUM ANGLE AT Hitler being driven around the stadium in his open
automobile; worshipers and cheering youth throngs follow.
AUDIO: Massive cheering, hailing Hitler as they do over soundtrack.
216. LONG SHOT AT HJ arms each raising per drum beat (MUSIC : "Unsere Fahne
Flattere für Uns" ("Our Banner Waves on Before Us") as Hitler's car
(unseen in this scene, though) passes OC.
FADES OUT TO:
[PART VIII REVIEW OF NEW MILITARY EQUIPMENT]
FADE IN:
217. FULL ANGLE AT EXTERIOR VIEW OF ZEPPLINWEISE PARADE FIELD AT EARLY
EVENING: SILHOUETTE-VIEW OF HITLER, HESS, REICHMARSHAL GOERING AND
MEMBERS OF THE NEWLY FORMED WEHRMACHT CAN BE SEEN (GENERAL VON
BLOMBERG, GRAND ADMIRAL RAEDER, ETC.) IN THIS OPENING SEQUENCE.
MUSIC: Military martial music is performed during this sequence. No
original sound effects.
218. MEDIUM ANGLE AT Wehrmacht military horsemen with kettledrums on
horseback signify the opening of this ceremony.
219. MEDIUM LONG ANGLE at various military vehicles parading through stadium.
DISSOLVES OUT TO:
220. MEDIUM ANGLE at various armored vehicles driving through center of
exterior stadium.
221. CLOSE ANGLE at Hitler, Goering, Hess and Von Blomberg laughing at the
sight.
222. LONG VIEW of the military vehicles driving through stadium again.
223. CLOSER ANGLE at men of the Wehrmacht, relaxed, laying out side,
enjoying the sights during hours of relaxation.
[PART IX NIGHT RALLY OF POLITICAL LEADERS]
224. WIDE ANGLE at sky over Zepplinweise parade field at night: clouds over
the parade field are photographed just at dusk.
SOUNDTRACK: military drum roll.
225. CAMERA PANS LOWER TO top tip of eagle and swastika structure as
military march is heard over soundtrack: "Grand Duke Regiment of the
18th Hussars March."
226. CLOSE-UP ANGLE AT eagle structure, illuminated by klieg lights in this
scene.
227. FULL ANGLE at 250,000 banner-carrying political leaders of the NSDAP as
they approach the podium, which we denote by viewing the eagle and
swastika structure, which is being photographed in this scene far in
the background.
228. WIDE ANGLE VIEW of the hundreds of thousands of banners being marched
onto the parade field at night.
229. CLOSER ANGLE at the tips of swastikas atop each banner as they are
being marched onto the parade field.
230. MEDIUM ANGLE at Hitler on the podium, in the Nazi salute , signaling the
arrival of the political leaders' rally at night.
231. LONG ANGLE at massed political leaders wielding banners from afar, all
marching to the front of the podium, which is being photographed from
quite a lengthy distance in this sequence.
232. MEDIUM CLOSE ANGLE AT Hitler: he stands before the microphone now,
delivering his address:
HITLER
"One year ago, we met for the first time
on this field; it was the first general
review of the political leaders of the
National Socialist Party. Now 200,000 men
have been assembled; summoned not by
their mere hearts but also their fidelity.
It is our nation's greatest misery that
moved us, united us in struggle, and made
us fight strong, and all of those who
have not suffered with me the very same
misery and suffering among their own
people cannot comprehend what we feel.
To them, it is confusing and
incomprehensible that this assembly would
bring hundreds of thousands together and
make them endure great misery, suffering
and privation as a simple order of the
State. They can only think that such a
thing could only be possible at the
command order of the State. They are
gravely mistaken. It is not the State
that orders us; but it is we who order
the State! ...
(applause)
233. CLOSE ANGLE AT fluttering NSDAP banners near the speaker's podium, then:
234. CLOSE ANGLE AGAIN AT Hitler speaking:
HITLER
... It is not the State that created us,
it is we who created the State! ...
(applause)
235. CLOSE ANGLE AT political leaders gathered in audience, holding NSDAP
banners in their hands, then:
236. BACK AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... But the Movement is alive and stands
firmly as a rock as long as one of us can
still breathe life into it, just as in
the many years past. Then drum will join
drum, banner will join banner, group will
join group, district will join district,
and then, at last, the once divided
people will then follow the gigantic
column of a united Reich! ...
(applause)
237. CLOSE ANGLES OF the ornamental decorations in the area: the massed
decorations of swastika banner and eagle motifs; then:
238. CLOSE AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... It would be a crime if we ever gave
up what had been fought for and won so
much strife, sorrow and sacrifice, and
distress. One cannot be disloyal to
something that has given content,
meaning and purpose to one's entire life.
All of this would not be possible were it
not given to us by a great command and it
is God Himself who created our Reich! ...
(applause )
239. CLOSE ANGLE AT fluttering banners again; then:
240. CLOSE BACK AT HITLER AGAIN:
HITLER
... Therefore, let us take this vow this
very evening, namely at each and every
hour, one each day, to think only of
Germany , the Nation, the Reich and our
German people! To our German Nation --
Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"
(applause, heils)
241. ANGLES at the banners;
242. ANGLES at the eagle and swastika;
243. WIDE ANGLE AT massed political leaders rising;
244. MEDIUM LONG SHOT at political leaders picking up lit torches and
beginning to carry them away in formation.
245. MEDIUM ANGLE at political leaders wielding torches, carrying them in
formation now in a torchlight parade ceremony back to the city.
MUSIC: "Die Grosse Zapfenstreich" military march provides background
music for the previous and the last scene during this sequence.
246. LONG ANGLE AT the massed political leaders carrying the torches down
the road and out of sight.
247. CLOSE ANGLE AT Hitler saluting the departing politic
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