Le Triomphe de la volonté (1935)
"Chef d'œuvre de haine, de vanité provocante, d'orgueil démoniaque, mais chef-d'œuvre tout de même." - Riefenstahl utilise le langage cinématographique pour glorifier et mythifier le sujet : contre-plongées héroïques, contre-champ nombreux de spectateurs (soldats, militants et "civils") enthousiastes. Le cadrage de la foule, lors de travellings ne permet pas un décompte exact. Travellings circulaires lors des discours et très grands plans lors des parades. - La séquence d'ouverture fait d'Hitler un dieu descendu des cieux pour sauver le peuple allemand. "Un dieu nouveau descendant du Walhalla", selon Mitry qui reprend l'analyse de Sadoul:("L'avion du nouveau Messie se posait à Nuremberg.") qui, plus loin, parle de "pompeuse déification wagnérienne". Ferro évoque "l'avion du Führer qui descend du ciel tel le démiurge"
Directeur:
Leni Riefenstahl
écrivains:
Eberhard Taubert, Walter Ruttmann, Leni Riefenstahl.
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Adolf Hitler as Self |
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Max Amann as Self |
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Hermann Göring as Self |
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Martin Bormann as Self |
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Hans Frank as Self |
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Sepp Dietrich as Self |
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Joseph Goebbels as Self |
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Erich Raeder as Self |
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Rudolf Hess as Self |
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Robert Ley as Self |
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Viktor Lutze as Self |
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Julius Streicher as Self |
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Baldur von Schirach as Self |
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Alfred Rosenberg as Self |
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Richard Walther Darré as Self |
| Directing | Leni Riefenstahl | Director |
| Camera | Walter Riml | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Eberhard Taubert | Screenplay |
| Camera | Paul Lieberenz | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Vlada Majić | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Walter Frentz | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Richard Nickel | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Siegfried Weimann | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Siegfried Schulz | Sound Designer |
| Production | Leni Riefenstahl | Producer |
| Camera | Karl Wellert | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Sepp Allgeier | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Karl Attenberger | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Herbert Kutschbach | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Franz Koch | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Werner Hundhausen | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Albert Kling | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Károly Vass | Director of Photography |
| Crew | Ernst Kunstmann | Special Effects |
| Writing | Walter Ruttmann | Screenplay |
| Camera | Herbert Kebelmann | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Arthur Schwertfeger | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Franz Weihmayr | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Herbert Windt | Music |
| Camera | Hans Gottschalk | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Willy Zielke | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Leni Riefenstahl | Screenplay |
| Camera | Werner Bohne | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Leni Riefenstahl | Editor |