In the first minutes of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” film, the camera pans over the Acropolis, over the faces of statues, until it finally stops on the sculpture of a discus thrower frozen in a dramatic pose. The camera slowly zooms in until the image of the statue is superimposed on a real discus thrower in the same position as he prepares to throw.
Misunderstanding between Rome and Munich over ancient statue – Munich
