The content of the film, in fact, is a grandiose review of a nation charged to the limit with patriotism, mobilized into a large paramilitary fist. Younger Hitler feels the adoration of the civilian public and the subjugation of those in the ranks, which later, apparently, motivated him to implement the ideas of which he was a fanatic - which led Germany to disaster very quickly. The congress of the Party as such is not dense: a dozen minutes of speeches by an energetic Party activist at the beginning, and a speech by the leader with a signature gesture at the end. The film doesn’t need actors – Hitler would have eclipsed everyone.
Leni Riefenstahl may have liked places where there are many brutal men. Conscientiously conveying everything ideologically and politically significant with marches-parades, she looks more like a brilliant film director than a razed Nazi: in the center of her attention, in addition to angles, bright types with emotions, “hiking” life, the beauty of Nuremberg. The film is a historical document with recognizable faces of the main characters, vividly illustrating Germany in the 30s, a civilizational phenomenon; leaves a feeling that in the post-Stalinist USSR, the Party and the Soviet authorities have forgotten how to propagate.