(Victory of Faith)
Directed by: Leni Riefenstahl
Written by: Leni Riefenstahl
Produced by: Leni Riefenstahl
Cinematography: Sepp Allgeier, Franz Weihmayr, Walter Frentz, Richard Quaas and Paul Tesch
Edited by: Leni Riefenstahl and Waldemar Gaede
Music by: Herbert Windt
Production companies: Propagandaministerium and Hauptabteilung Film
Distributed by: Universum Film AG
Release date: 1 December 1933
Running time: 64 minutes
Country: National-Socialist Germany
Language: German
Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith) is the first National-Socialist propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the National-Socialist Party, which occurred in Nuremberg, Germany, from 30 August to 3 September 1933. The film is of great historic interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Hitler had Röhm shot during the Night of the Long Knives on 1 July 1934. As he then sought to erase Röhm from German history, Hitler required all known copies of the film to be destroyed, and it was considered lost until a copy turned up in the 1980s in East Germany.
The form of the film is very similar to her later and much more expansive film of the 1934 rally, Triumph of the Will. Der Sieg des Glaubens is National-Socialist propaganda for the NSDAP, which funded and promoted the film, which celebrates the victory of the National-Socialists in achieving power when Hitler assumed the role of Chancellor of Germany in January 1933.
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