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Bewitching is also about technique!
Jevon 2022-03-22 09:02:57
Leni Riefenstahl, a beauty with a classical temperament, a fan of the Third Reich and Hitler, a great documentary film director, such an identity undoubtedly determines the success of this film. For 2 hours, no voiceover was used to explain, and the effect was expressed by the natural tension of the picture. The overall picture of the whole film is very spectacular, but the finishing touches are interspersed in place. It can be said that this film is It made it difficult for the passionate young Germans to resist the temptation to serve for the Third Reich. The film ends with Wagner's epic music. All the content is coherent and integrated, which makes me once again sigh that it came from a beautiful woman. Director's hand. But Leni Riefenstahl also paid a price, as she herself said: "Women are not allowed to make mistakes."
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subtitle: The documentary of the Reich Party Congress, 1934 - Produced by order of the Führer.
Opening crawl: On September 5, 1934, 20 years after the outbreak of the World War, 16 years after Germany's Suffering, 19 months after the beginning of the German Rebirth, Adolf Hitler again flew to Nuremberg to review the assembly of his faithful followers.
crowd: [for more than 20 minutes, there is only one discernible word:] Heil! Heil! Heil!...
Rudolf Hess: I open the sixth Party Congress in respectful memory of he who has passed on to eternity, Field Marshal and Reich President von Hindenburg...
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Adolf Hitler: We want this people to be hard, not soft, and you must steel yourselves for it in your youth!