Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Against stupidity the Gods themselves struggle in vain. /Schiller/