"The Hitler Games, Berlin 1936" by Jérôme Prieur

Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 4:30 p.m.

France, documentary, 86 mn, Roche Productions, Arte France and France Télévisions, 2016

Les Jeux d’Hitler, Berlin 1936 © DR.

The Hitler Games, Berlin 1936 © DR.

Summer 1936. The Berlin Olympics offer to the world images of a sporting, peaceful and regenerated Germany. For fifteen days, the Olympics seem to stop time and make violence and fear disappear. Or how Hitler became, thanks to sport, the host of countries against which he is preparing total war.

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In the presence of the director, Isabelle Davion, senior lecturer at Paris 4 University, and Christian Delage, historian and director of the IHTP.

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