Poetic Documentary

Olympia

It was the first documentary feature film on the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed, including unusual camera angles, smash cuts, extreme close-ups, setting the railway tracks on the stadium to shoot the crowd and the like. The techniques employed are almost universally admired, but the film is controversial due to its political context.

The film is a documentaary on the Olympic Games in 1938, which shows audience, the frst documentary made, of how the Olympic games ran and the politcal issues involved.