Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/24

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Subject: [Leica] Re Riefenstahl
From: mipaine at comcast.net (G. Michael Paine)
Date: Tue Aug 24 20:13:51 2004
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Have you seen the film?

Michael Paine

On Aug 24, 2004, at 7:39 PM, Emanuel Lowi wrote:

> I realize I'm flogging a dead horse here but...
>
> Riefenstahl's "Olympiad"  was not made for the Nazis.
>
> The film was commissioned and paid for by the
> International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was, in
> fact, the official IOC documentary of the 1936 games.
>
> The IOC still stands behind the film today.
>
> The film is about sport. One has to be mighty
> imaginative to discern political content in it.
> Hitler appears briefly in the film, but the film is
> not a glorification of Naziism.
>
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal
>
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