The dream of Olympia

This article describes the television movie. To the comic The dream of Olympia. For the story of Samia Yusuf Omar see Reinhard Kleist .

Movie
Original title	The dream of Olympia
Publishing year	2016
Rod
Director	Mira Thiel and Florian Huber
script	Florian Huber
camera	Stephan Burchardt
occupation
Sandra von Ruffin : Gretel Bergmann Simon Schwarz : Wolfgang Fürstner Gotthard Lange : Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff Theresa Scholze : Leonie Fürstner Annina Hellenthal : Elfriede Kaun Christian Hockenbrink : Carl Diem Mateusz Dopieralski : Joachim Seyppel Paul Faßnacht : Edwin Bergmann

Simon Schwarz, Sandra von Ruffin, Annina Hellenthal, Gotthard Lange at the premiere on July 11, 2016 in Berlin

The Dream of Olympia - The 1936 Nazi Games is a docudrama about the 1936 Olympic Games . The first broadcast took place on July 16, 2016 at Arte . Directed by Mira Thiel and Florian Huber .

action

The film revolves around the Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann , who was temporarily excluded from participation, and the Wehrmacht officer Wolfgang Fürstner , who directed the construction of the Olympic Village .

background

The figure of the officer Wolfgang Fürstner often breaks through the so-called fourth wall and addresses the viewer directly, in which he breaks out of the actual plot and briefly explains his motives and feelings to the viewer.

criticism

“It is not only Simon Schwarz who has given his falling hero enough ambivalence on his way into the abyss that the recordings are not overwhelming. If Bergmann and Fürstner's fictional off-commentaries counter or even break the power of images, it is due to the experienced scriptwriter and historian Florian Huber. "

- Arno Frank : Spiegel Online

Web links

• The dream of Olympia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The dream of the Olympics at crew united
• The Dream of Olympia - The Nazi Games of 1936 ( Memento from April 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in Das Erste , December 4, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arno Frank: Docudrama about Olympia 1936. Start for the world war. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, July 18, 2016, accessed February 25, 2019 .