Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now why would you want to throw in facts, when you know how at odds it is with the conventions of perceptional truth. S. Dimitrov > From: Emanuel Lowi <lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:39:23 -0400 (EDT) > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] Re Riefenstahl > > 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