Cast and crew
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
60 cast and 57 crew, as credited. Cast in billing order; crew by department.
Cast60
David AlbrittonSelf - High Jump, USA (uncredited)- Arvo AskolaSelf - 10000 Metres, Finland (uncredited)
Jack BeresfordSelf - Carries British Flag (uncredited)- Erwin BlaskSelf - Hammer Throw, Germany (uncredited)
- Sulo BärlundSelf - Shot Put, Finland (uncredited)
- Ibolya CsákSelf - High Jump, Hungary (uncredited)
- Glenn CunninghamSelf (uncredited)
Henri de Baillet-LatourSelf - IOC, Stands with Hitler, with Hurdlers (uncredited)
Philip EdwardsSelf - 800 Metres, Canada (uncredited)
Donald FinlaySelf - 110m Hurdles, Great Britain (uncredited)- Tilly FleischerSelf - Javelin Throw, Germany (uncredited)
- Wilhelm FrickSelf - Spectator (uncredited)
Joseph GoebbelsSelf - Spectator (uncredited)
Hermann GöringSelf - Spectator (uncredited)- Ernest HarperSelf - Marathon, Great Britain (uncredited)
- Karl HeinSelf - Hammer Throw, Germany (uncredited)
- Heinz HermanGerman Flag Carrier (uncredited)
Rudolf HessSelf - Stands with Hitler (uncredited)
Adolf HitlerSelf - Declares Games Open (uncredited)- Volmari Iso-HolloSelf - 10000 Metres, Finland (uncredited)
- Cornelius JohnsonSelf - High Jump, USA (uncredited)
- Matti JärvinenSelf - Javelin, Finland (uncredited)
- Elfriede KaunSelf - High Jump, Germany (uncredited)
- King Umberto IISelf - Stands with Hitler, Salutes Italian Team (uncredited)
- Kalevi KotkasSelf - High Jump, Finland (uncredited)
- Gustaf Alfons KoutonenSelf - Hammer Throw, Finland (uncredited)
- Luise KrügerSelf - Javelin Throw, Germany (uncredited)
- Maria KwasniewskaSelf - Javelin Throw, Poland (uncredited)
- Theodor LewaldSelf - German Olympic Committee, Stands with Hitler (uncredited)
- Luz LongSelf (uncredited)
- Spiridon LouisSelf - Walks Behind Greek Flag, in Greek Costume (uncredited)
- John LovelockSelf - 1500 Metres, New Zealand (uncredited)
- Gisela MauermayerSelf - Discus Throw, Germany (uncredited)
- Earle MeadowsSelf - Pole Vault, USA (uncredited)
- Ralph MetcalfeSelf - Sprinter, USA (uncredited)
- Paula MollenhauerSelf - Discus Throw, Germany (uncredited)
- Väinö MuinonenSelf - Marathon, Finland (uncredited)
- Seung-yong NamSelf - Marathon, Japan (uncredited)
- Henri NannenAnnouncer (uncredited)
- Yrjö NikkanenSelf - Javelin, Finland (uncredited)
- Shûhei NishidaSelf - Pole Vault, Japan (uncredited)
- Paavo NurmiSelf - Spectator Watching 10000 Metres Race (uncredited)
- Dorothy OdamSelf - High Jump, Great Britain (uncredited)
- Martinus OsendarpSelf - 100 Metres, Holland (uncredited)
- Jesse OwensSelf (uncredited)
Leni RiefenstahlNude Dancer - Prologue (uncredited)- Mack RobinsonSelf - Second, After Owens (uncredited)
- Ilmari SalminenSelf - 10000 Metres, Finland (uncredited)
- Julius SchaubSelf - Spectator, with Glasses, Behind Hitler (uncredited)
- Kee-chung SohnSelf - Marathon, Japan (uncredited)
Julius StreicherSelf - Spectator (uncredited)- Gerhard StöckSelf - Shot Put, Javelin Throw, Germany (uncredited)
- Naoto TajimaSelf - Triple Jump, Japan (uncredited)
- Erkki TamilaSelf - Marathon, Finland (uncredited)
- Kalervo ToivonenSelf - Javelin, Finland (uncredited)
- Forrest TownsSelf - 110m Hurdles, USA (uncredited)
- Werner von BlombergSelf - Spectator (uncredited)
- August von MackensenSelf - Spectator (uncredited)
- Hans von Tschammer und OstenSelf (Spectator, in White Suit) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- Hans WoellkeSelf - Shot Put, Germany (uncredited)
Crew57
Directing
- Leni RiefenstahlDirector
Writing
- Leni RiefenstahlWriter
Production
- Leni RiefenstahlProducer
- Walter TrautProduction Manager
Camera
- Hans ErtlDirector of Photography
- Walter FrentzDirector of Photography
- Guzzi LantschnerDirector of Photography
- Kurt NeubertDirector of Photography
- Hans ScheibDirector of Photography
- Albert KlingDirector of Photography
- Willy HameisterDirector of Photography
- Paul HolzkiDirector of Photography
- Luggi WaldleitnerAssistant Camera
- Georg FleischmannCamera Operator
- Wilfried BasseDirector of Photography
- Leo De LafrueDirector of Photography
- Josef DietzeDirector of Photography
- E. EpkinsDirector of Photography
- Hans Karl GottschalkDirector of Photography
- Richard GroschoppDirector of Photography
- Wolf HartDirector of Photography
- Hasso HartnagelDirector of Photography
- Walter HegeDirector of Photography
- Werner HundhausenDirector of Photography
- Albert HöchtDirector of Photography
- Carl JunghansDirector of Photography
- Herbert KebelmannDirector of Photography
- Sepp KettererDirector of Photography
- Ernst KunstmannDirector of Photography
- Leo de LaforgueDirector of Photography
- LagorioDirector of Photography
- E. LambertiniDirector of Photography
- Otto LantschnerDirector of Photography
- Waldemar LembkeDirector of Photography
- Georg LemkeDirector of Photography
- C.A. LinkeDirector of Photography
- Erich NitzschmannDirector of Photography
- Albert SchattmannDirector of Photography
- Wilhelm SchmidtDirector of Photography
- H. O. SchulzeDirector of Photography
- Leo SchwedlerDirector of Photography
- Alfred SiegertDirector of Photography
- W. SiehmDirector of Photography
- Ernst SorgeDirector of Photography
- Károly VassDirector of Photography
- Andor von BàrsyDirector of Photography
- Eberhard von der HeydenDirector of Photography
- Fritz von FriedlDirector of Photography
- Heinz von JaworskyDirector of Photography
- Hugo von KaweczynskiDirector of Photography
- Alexander von LagorioDirector of Photography
- H. von StwolinskiDirector of Photography
- Willy ZielkeDirector of Photography
Editing
- Leni RiefenstahlEditor
- Erna PetersAssistant Editor
Sound and music
- Herbert WindtOriginal Music Composer
- Walter GronostayMusic
