| | |  | GERMANY | Home » » Olympia: The Complete Original Version (The Leni Riefenstahl Archival Collection) | | | | | | | Description: | | This limited edition 2-disc set features the complete original version of OLYMPIA, presented for the first time on DVD. (All Region, NTSC) Special Edition DVD features: Over 5 hours of material including JUGEND DER WELT ("Youth of The World") Official Documentary of the 1936 Winter Olympics at Gaemisch-Partenkirchen, DIE KAMERA FAHRT MIT ("The Camera Goes Too") 1936 Documentary by Bavaria-Filmkunst featuring footage from Leni Rifenstahl’s films OLYMPIA and TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. Deleted Scenes, Biography, Still Gallery, German with ON/OFF English subtitles and English language, Dolby 2.0 audio, Essays by film historian David Calvert Smith, Trailer. | | | Product Details: | | | Director:
| Leni Riefenstahl | | Format:
| Black & White, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full length, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| German, English, Spanish, Italian | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Pathfinder Home Entertainment | | Run Time:
| 204 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| June 27, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 33 reviews |
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The Wonderful (cinematography) Horrible (transfer) of OlympiaJul 02, 2006
By D. C. Hociota
Olympia is a piece of sport history coated in a magnificent art form. The superlatives aren't enough to describe this documentary; a veritable time machine traveling to an amazing and Orwellian future Valhalla called Nazi Germany.
1936 Olympiad was also well renown for the first to be broadcast on a form of television. This DVD sadly has an image quality comparable to what the citizens of Berlin saw on those twenty five large screens scattered along the City's main boulevards 70 years ago. Having seen some excerpts from "Olympia" in the documentary `The Wonderful Horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl" on DVD, I had great expectations concerning the image quality of this new release. What a disappointment! No one bothered to digitally remove the annoying scratches not mentioning the total absence of any timid tentative of restoration of a decent audio sound. Everything seems like a low resolution transfer from a cheap VHS . Let's hope that some day Criterion Collection will do this film the justice it deserves.
77 of 79 found the following review helpful:
 Be HonestDec 01, 2006
By Baron von Munchhausen
The original, as I viewed it on public television perhaps twenty years ago, was spectacular.
But the problems in this version are not just superficial and are not simply ones that some hyper-purist would notice. They include tiling, caused by extreme compression; scratches and blips galore; grey tonal quality converging on nil, and sometimes making it seem like one is looking through a duststorm; ridiculous cropping of the image, often even cutting off the heads of the subjects. The audio's flaky, too, especially noticeable in the sometimes lurching, but always tinny rendition of the orchestral scoring.
Weirdly, the package seems to have been conceived well, with nice features included. How is it possible, then, to have messed up the technical execution so badly?
111 of 118 found the following review helpful:
 Classic Film / Horrible transferJul 06, 2006
By Orson Swelles
"filmfanatix"
I have been waiting for Criterion to release this for 4 years now. With the technology of restoration of older films vastly improving I must say this is the worst transfer that I have seen of an older film released in the last two years. Don't spend your money on this edition and hope that Criterion will release this in our lifetime!
25 of 26 found the following review helpful:
Optical quality?Dec 10, 2006
By Anne Caldwell
"Traveller"
I have long owned a VHS copy of Olympia, and it wasn't visually bad, but of course I longed for the improvement a DVD version might bring. This release was a surprise - it seems to be not an optical transfer, but a DVD of the VHS version, horizontal analogue scan lines and all, and visually a disappointment. I realise that a total restoration is expensive and that the market for this kind of thing is relatively small, and I'll live with what I can get, but if Criterion ever releases a restored version, I'll be first in line. Until then, concentrate on the hypnotic, iconic content. As an avowed curmudgeon, I'm offended by yahoo patriots at international sporting events chanting USA!USA! from the bleachers. There they were, in 1936, chanting for Jesse Owens as he won four golds - then and there the patriot war cry seemed right.
29 of 32 found the following review helpful:
Don't waste your moneyJan 25, 2007
By Danny Leopard
"Leopard"
This disk is terrible. It is obviously cheaply digitized from a poor master tape. Don't purchase products by Pathfinder Home Entertainment, if this is an example of their business practice.
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