Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht (1935)
Also known as Day of Freedom
1935 · Short film · 26 min · dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- Documentary
- propaganda film
Synopsis
Filming of the performance show the Deutsche Wehrmacht (German Army) made during the Reichsparteitag of the NSDAP in Nurnberg 1935. Showing the readiness and the will of the newly build army.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Writer
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Composer
- Peter Kreuder
- Studio
- Leni Riefenstahl-Produktion
- Released
- 1935-12-30
- Original title
- Tag der Freiheit! - Unsere Wehrmacht
- Running time
- 26 minutes
- Language
- German
- Collection
- Mid-20th-Century German Film, Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Wehrmacht
Cast & crew
Leni Riefenstahl Director
Rudolf Hess
Hermann Göring
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Wehrmacht 1935 · Dublin Historian · 2021-03-13
This short film of the Wehrmacht was commissioned after Triumph of the Will was seen. The German Army high command felt the amed forces did not receive recognition. Leni Riefenstahl thus put this together. It was funded and produced by the Nazi Party. The film itself shows the new Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe on display in marching formation and also in battlefield war games on the Zepplin Field at Nuremberg. While the uniforms and structure are all new, the training and tactics are all Reichswehr developed during the Weimar period. The combinations of foot, horse, mechanised & air…