Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will: A Work of Art Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi documentary, Triumph of the Will, although technically dazzling and artfully made, belies the sinister and inhumane actions of the Nazi regime the film celebrates. Triumph of the Will, a propaganda film commissioned by Adolf Hitler, documents a 1934 Nazi Rally in Nuremberg, Germany. The film inventively presents the rally’s grandeur: swastika banners waving gaily, thousands of German people on their tip-toes, eager to see and hear Hitler’s address. Triumph of the Will, under Hitler’s authorization and Riefenstahl’s direction, glorified and mysticized the Nazi party. The