Points of Discussion for Triumph of the Will (1935)

by Leni Riefenstahl

Documentary Film

• Image and Reality
• capturing events, staging them
• innovations in camera work, tracking equipment, and editing

Sequence Analysis

• opening
• camp
• folk parade
• mass demonstration

Settings

• Nuremberg
• the streets
• the stadium
• the camp
• the hall

Characters

• Adolf Hitler
• savior
• alone, isolated in the frame
• father of the people
• leader
• the camera perspectives
• the Masses
• the Youth
• Women

Symbols of the Nazi Party and Movement

• swastika
• flags
• standard
• torch, fire
• shovel
• uniforms

Discourses/Themes

• power
• order
• discipline
• cleanliness
• bounty
• masculinity
• femininity