Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht (1935)

Original title

Tag der Freiheit! - Unsere Wehrmacht

Directed by

Leni Riefenstahl

Genre

documentary film, propaganda film

Country

Germany

Runtime

28 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the 1935 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. It shows the German army parading and participating in ceremonial displays.

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What happens

Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht (Day of Freedom: Our Armed Forces) is the third documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl, following Der Sieg des Glaubens and Triumph des Willens. Her third film recounts the Seventh Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg in 1935, and focuses on the German army. Tag der Freiheit was considered lost at the end of World War II, but an incomplete print of the film was discovered in the 1970s—the extant footage reveals Riefenstahl mainly reprising the approach she used in Triumph of the Will (1934), though certain more expressionistic sequences clearly presage the more audacious style she would adopt for Olympia (1938). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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