”Art and politics are separate entities and what I did was in the world of art.”
Leni Riefenstahl

In ”Triumph of the Will” we attempt to recreate one of the greatest yet most problematic masterpieces of cinematic history: Leni Riefenstahl’s nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. As a gifted, avantgarde woman Riefenstahl happened to ruin art’s relationship with beauty. With her poetically filmed and brilliantly edited movie, she turned art’s relationship with optimism and community rotten.

Triumph of the Will is a masterpiece about freedom, community and optimism. It’s a piece of art, that through its beauty and sublime aesthetics, manages to bring its audience a feeling of hope and will to change the world. The movie, its participants and its audience, changes the world with a power and effect no piece of art has had before or after.

Can art bring political messages and still in the name of art free itself from responsibilities of its own effect?

The show is supported by Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg.