"Youth of the World" (Nazi Germany, 1936)

The "youth" of the world in 1936 looked really old. This was a restored version of a film of the 1936 Winter Olympics. The German alpine towns would have looked pretty nice if they hadn't had Nazi flags flying here and there. Hitler, Goebbels and Goring appear nine or ten  years before their eventual suicides. I kept thinking of Death Race 2000, David Carradine intent on winning the race so he could shake hands with the country's leader and blow him up. 

I don't watch the Olympics or sports of any kind, so I don't know, but my impression was that Olympians back then would have been no match for even middling athletes today. We see them lumbering around on their skis with their receding hairlines and sagging features.

But it was nicely filmed. Interesting to watch. No narration, but an occasional superimposed title.  

38 minutes. Available on the Criterion Channel.