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- Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)
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- Leni Riefenstahl
- "Leni Riefenstahl's classic piece of historical filmmaking, filmed during the 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremburg, Germany is considered by many to be one of the most important and controversial films ever made.
The film, realized by Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, was created to influence all of Germany to support the "power" of the Nazi Party. All during World War II in every theatre in Germany, either part or all of Triumph of the Will was shown.
Funded entirely by the NSDAP (the Nazi Party), Hitler hired the young actress/director Leni Riefenstahl to direct. Money was unlimited, so Riefenstahl was eating and sleeping in the editing room with hundreds of thousands of feet of film for several months. All of the shots in Triumph are carefully constructed. Sets were specially built to accommodate cameras and Hitler was filmed separately from the crowds so Riefenstahl could edit together a film that would manipulate imagery and seduce the mind.
An historically significant and, at times, horrifying manipulative exercise in propaganda for the Nazi regime, Triumph of the Will continues to be controversial over sixty years after its original release. This historical document has been unavailable in Germany for many decades and Leni Riefenstahl has since come under fire for her personal relationship with Adolph Hitler. spending her life in the shadow of collaborating with the Nazi Party." -
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- Alexander Nevsky
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- Dmitri Vasilyev
- "Alexander Nevsky features some of the most beautiful imagery that you will ever see in a film; a justifiably famous, majestic music score by Prokofiev; and a dazzling, climactic battle on a frozen lake. However, this Sergei Eisenstein epic is perhaps most intriguing as a reflection of its time. While Alexander Nevsky is set in 1242, its scenario could just as easily be unraveling in 1938, the year in which it was completed.
The setting is the part of Russia under constant invasion by Mongolian raiders. The fisherman prince Alexander Nevsky learns of a plot by the Teutonic knights to attack the country. While some of the Russian leaders would rather pacify the invaders, the masses instead choose to mobilize, selecting Nevsky as their commander. The Teutons win a number of victories, and even capture the city of Pskov. In the finale, an extended sequence which dramatically overpowers all that has come before it, Nevsky and his forces take on the Teutons in the Battle of the Ice." -
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- Battleship Potemkin
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- Grigori Aleksandrov
- "The Battleship Potempkin eveolved from a film project assigned to Eisenstein by the Soviet Central Committee in charge of planning celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution...As he was shooting in Odessa, he decided to narrow his concept and focus on a sole event-a mutiny by a battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians-that reflected the spirit of the times."
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