El totalitarismo ideal como experiencia cinematográfica: el "Führer" Adolf Hitler en el cine

• Autores: Martin Loiperdinger
• Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 46, 2004 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cine y carisma : la deificación del poder político), págs. 52-65
• Idioma: español
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  • “Ideal Totalitarianism” as a Cinematographic Experience: The Führer in Film
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  • This paper examines the image of Adolf Hitler as it has reached us through the films of Leni Riefenstahl produced for party assemblies (Parteitags) of the time, with special emphasis on The Triumph of The Will. Like the party assemblies themselves, the intention behind these films was to drum up popular support from the German people for the war effort as designed by the National Socialist Party. The film in question offers an aesthetic portrayal of the principles of order and obedience as the ideal image of true fascist virtue, which is defined as nothing less than absolute loyalty to the Führer and necessarily implies a complete willingness to die for Germany. It is for this reason that an homage to the soldiers who fell in the First World War is central to the film. Hitler appears on the screen with the aura of a political hero and redeemer, as a figure demanding new redemption for Germany following the disasters of the First World War. When we see the images filmed by Leni Riefenstahl of Hitler on television today, we are not seeing a true portrayal of the dictator, but rather an image in keeping with his abstract own wishes.