6 SEPTEMBER 2008, Page 22

Riefenstahl’s record

Sir: Jonathan Mirsky correctly identifies (Letters, 23 August) the ‘ceremonial Potemkin’ of the Beijing Olympics but he is wrong to state that Leni Riefenstahl’s film Triumph of the Will was about the 1936 Nazi event. It was instead a record of the Nuremburg congress of the NSDAP held in 1934. Riefenstahl did however go on to record the 1936 Games and the resulting film bore the (seemingly appropriate) title of Olympia.

Mark Watson

Bristol