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Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost]
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Triumph of the Will (1935) [Remastered Special Edition]
DVD9 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | Complete Scans (4 JPGs) | 01:50:25 | 7,71 Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + English Commentary | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, War
DVD9 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | Complete Scans (4 JPGs) | 01:50:25 | 7,71 Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + English Commentary | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, War
Director: Leni Riefenstahl
Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The "Jewish question" is disposed of with a few fleeting closeups; filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler's climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors. It has been alleged that the climactic rally, "spontaneous" Sieg-Heils and all, was pre-planned according to Riefenstahl's specifications, the better to take full advantage of its cinematic potential. Allegedly, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels resented the presence and intrusion of a woman director, but finally had to admit that her images, achieved through the use of 30 cameras and 120 assistants, were worth a thousand speeches. Possibly the most powerful propaganda film ever made, Triumph of the Will is also, in retrospect, one of the most horrifying.
Savant was shown this film several times in film school, and remembers a course taught by Stephen Mamber where we studied the distinction between documentary filmmaking and propaganda. I believe we concluded that a film record of almost any subject so selects and chooses how to represent it, that objective documentation is an almost unattainable ideal. We are bombarded with calculated, insidious media messages today, all pretending to present 'the truth', whether about a consumer item or a political candidate for sale. There are those who claim that the culture as a mass has lost the ability to discern for itself simple values of right and wrong, truth and lies.![Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/01/10/001d1001_medium.jpeg)
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Creating a controlled 'truth' was exactly the aim of Riefenstahl and her Nazi producers, who created and ran the giant rally as much to make this propaganda tool, than for its own purpose. The giant stadiums were designed to accommodate special cameras (you can see little elevators for camera buckets going up and down the colossal bannered columns) and many shots were accomplished by repeatedly restaging ostensibly 'candid' scenes. Because of camera placement and sound recording, it's more than probable that key 'dialogue' scenes were actually shot totally separately, including whole speeches by Hitler himself. The staggering job of assistant- directoring dwarfed the dimensions of anything Hollywood ever made: there are literally tens of thousands of people following 'direction' and 'hitting their marks' far more perfectly than in any epic. When the pomp and circumstance becomes more complicated, the spectacle turns into a Busby Berkeley vision of Hell.![Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/02/10/001d1002_medium.jpeg)
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And it is staggering. The camera tracks along endless lines of people whose life's fulfillment seems to be the honor of massing to adore Hitler. The huge rally of workers, with Hitler and two cronies walking calmly down a wide causeway between vast regiments of men standing to attention, is the most potent image of 20th century totalitarianism.![Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/03/10/001d1003_medium.jpeg)
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Synapse's DVD adds a dynamic to the movie that makes this disc more 'useful' than seeing Triumph of the Will projected on a screen. Watching the show with only its own few titles as a guide, it's easy to get lost; you wish you had a college professor sitting next to you to identify all the historical villains onscreen, and the significance of whole rallies, as well as details like insignia. Who are those guys carrying shovels instead of guns? Are there any girls in the Hitler youth? The DVD provides this extra dimension through the pleasant-sounding Dr. Anthony R. Santoro, whose running commentary is priceless. His explanations of basic facts are clear and well timed: So that's what the infamous Streicher looks like. 'Swastika' isn't a German word - they call it a 'hooked cross.' What eventually happened to all those Nazis making ecstatic speeches, and who were the nastiest of them? Santoro also notes for us the not-so-obvious indications of directorial influence: the restagings, the moments 'designed' for the camera. Without making weighted judgments, he points out the sources and the ironies of Hitler's power, remarking that everything in the rallies was chosen to bolster weaknesses in the party's rule (Hitler had just assumed full control of the state; a major party leader had just been purged). Finally, Santoro makes the vital distinction between autocratic power, which wants to control your actions, and totalitarian power, which wants control over your actions and your thoughts. Thought control of masses of people wasn't possible until the 20th century and modern communications; this film proves the theory that the most powerful tool of thought control is the Cinema.![Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/04/10/001d1004_medium.jpeg)
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Since study of Triumph of the Will proves that it is an obvious promotional film, and in no way a documentary, Riefenstahl's defensive claim that she was an artist unconcerned with politics cuts no ice with Savant. Aesop wrote a fable about a battle trumpeter who, when captured, pleaded that he was no soldier because he carried no weapon. The conquering general had him executed along with the rest of the soldiers, with the moral that he who enables hostilities is as much a combatant as the soldiers themselves. As Riefenstahl was not even a conscripted soldier, her participation in the deification of Hitler has to put her right up with the most heinous enablers of his crimes.![Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/05/10/001d1005_medium.jpeg)
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Synapse's DVD gives a reasonably clear image of the show, with the best soundtrack Savant's yet heard. Besides the great commentary, there are newly translated, removable English subtitles, reportedly more accurate than the old ones. An extra from David Shepard is a much shorter promotional film about the army from 1935's Nuremburg rally, called Day of Freedom. It was produced because the army felt slighted by the National Socialists hogging the spotlight in the previous film; here Riefenstahl turns her camera to artsy and dynamic views of crack troops demonstrating their skill. Newly equipped military teams enact a mock battle before a huge crowd, Roman-Coliseum style.![Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/06/10/001d1006_medium.jpeg)
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When people want to suppress key films like this because they might inspire further adulation of Naziism or encourage hateful rhetoric, Savant becomes suspicious. The greatest value in seeing something like Triumph of the Will today is that it might inspire viewers to question the content of the avalanche of messages they have to fend off every day: not only what passes for 'news', but attitudes and judgmental bias in other kinds of entertainment. You don't have to be Philip K. Dick to see the Ubik-like hidden messages in our modern world, but education seems to be the only way to bring anything like truth to light. This Synapse disc of Triumph of the Will is an eye-opener and a significant DVD release.
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Features
* 2005 Digitally Remastered Windowboxed Transfer from a 35mm Fine Grain Element
* Original German Language with Newly Translated removable English Subtitles
* The Leni Riefenstahl short film, DAY OF FREEDOM (17 min.)
* Optimal Quality RSDL Dual Layer Editon
* Audio Commentary by Historian Dr. Anthony Santoro
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