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Tag der Freiheit! — Unsere Wehrmacht!
Day of Freedom! — Our Armed Forces!
Black & White/Sound, 1935
28 minutes (2,476 feet)
35mm/1:1.33 aspect ratio
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Introduction
Titles
Cast
Production Credits
Production Details
Premiere
Awards
Synopsis
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Historical Notes
Analysis & Criticism (On-Site)
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A film of the Seventh Party Rally of the National Socialists, which took place from September 10th to September 16th, 1935, in Nuremberg. Unlike Triumph des Willens of earlier that year and the previous year's Der Sieg des Glaubens, the focus of this film was solely on the German army. However, as with those films, although generally considered to be a "propaganda film," unlike the typical propaganda films put out by the Nazi party at that time, Tag der Freiheit contains no running commentary and could technically rather be considered to be a documentary film — once again, though, how any film is used by any particular group is naturally an entirely different matter.
Titles
Full Title
Tag der Freiheit! — Unsere Wehrmacht!
("Day of Freedom! — Our Armed Forces!")
Alternate Titles
None
[Cast]
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Göring
Rudolph Hess
Heinrich Himmler
and
other high-ranking officials
plus
Various Generals & Soldiers of the Wehrmacht
and
audience participants
Production Credits
Director
Leni Riefenstahl
Camera
Hans Ertl
Walter Frentz
Albert Kling
Guzzi Lantschner
Kurt (Kuer) Neubert
Willy Zielke
Music
Peter Kreuder
Editor
Leni Riefenstahl
Executive Producer
Leni Riefenstahl
Production Company
Reichsparteitag-Film [Leni Riefenstahl Studio-Film, Berlin]
NSDAP (Commerce Authority of Party Rally Film)
Distribution
UFA-Filmverleih
Production Details
Shooting Dates
September 10–16, 1935
Censorship Rating
Artistically & Politically Significant
Premiere
December 30, 1935 (UFA-Palast am Zoo, Berlin)
Awards
No awards were received for this film
Synopsis
The sequences (not including opening and closing titles/credits) from the film are:
- Presentation of the Wehrmacht
- Hitler's Speech
- Wehrmacht in Full Excercise
References
- Many thanks to Dr. Luc Deneulin for his extensive research and contribution!
Image Galleries
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Historical Notes
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Analysis & Criticism (On-Site)
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Web Links
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