History YMMV / TriumphOfTheWill

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This was quite an innovative movie when it was made, and has inspired many a scene (and originated some now fairly standard techniques) since then -- with the result that very little in the movie seems original after some seven decades of people copying things from it.

* OneSceneWonder: The incredibly enthusiastic and wide-eyed speaker of the Labor Service. Might be due to a GagSub by Creator/MontyPython. However, you were unable to see it because of an copyright claim made by Believe Entertainment.

** ''Victory of Faith'' was made before the notorious Night of the Long Knives in 1934, where Hitler and the SS purged the SA and its leadership. In many ways it looks like am EarlyInstalmentWeirdness version of ''Triumph'', with a lot of the same shots but in the earlier film the SA men are often big, middle-aged war veterans with beer bellies, and in the later film they're young and handsome. The earlier film also prominently features SA leader Ernst Röhm, who isn't in the later film because Hitler had had him shot in the meantime.

* HarsherInHindsight: It was intended as a ''documentary'' film to show the Germans how great the Nazi regime was and how TheFutureWillBeBetter. However, since the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII it's difficult to watch this movie without keeping in mind what horrors all this would lead to in the end. That said, the film also has a bit of ForegoneConclusion, as anyone born 1945-onwards knows that the Nazis ultimately failed to accomplish their goals.

* OneSceneWonder: The incredibly enthusiastic and wide-eyed speaker of the Labor Service. Might be due to an GagSub by Creator/MontyPython. However, you were unable to see it because of an copyright claim made by Believe Entertainment.

* OneSceneWonder: The incredibly enthusiastic and wide-eyed speaker of the Labor Service. Might be due to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfyHUrL2O6g this]] GagSub by Creator/MontyPython.

* ForegoneConclusion: Regardless of how the film depicts the Nazi regime's goal of ending, anyone watching the film nowadays knows that their plans were ultimately unsuccessful.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: As the film was a pro-Nazi PropagandaPiece made at the height of the Nazi's power, it focuses entirely on the possibility of a potential Nazi victory which [[ForegoneConclusion ultimately never happened]].

* HarsherInHindsight: It was intended as a ''documentary'' film to show the Germans how great the Nazi regime was and how TheFutureWillBeBetter. However, since the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII it's difficult to watch this movie without keeping in mind what horrors all this would lead to in the end.

* ValuesDissonance: We hope so.

* [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny Seinfeld Isn't Innovative]]: This was quite an innovative movie when it was made, and has inspired many a scene (and originated some now fairly standard techniques) since then -- with the result that very little in the movie seems original after some seven decades of people copying things from it.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Unfunny isn't quite the right word, but this was quite an innovative movie when it was made, and has inspired many a scene (and originated some now fairly standard techniques) since then -- with the result that very little in the movie seems original after some seven decades of people copying things from it.

* OneSceneWonder: The incredibly enthusiastic and wide-eyed speaker of the Labor Service.

* ValuesDissonance: We hope so.

* {{Narm}}: When you're not getting High-Octane NightmareFuel, some of the sequences can be just plain silly. Specific examples might include the ''Reichsarbeitsdienst'' sequence, with the work-men declaring where they're from. The sequence was reportedly rehearsed 50 times, like many other sequences, but the way the workers announce their birthplaces with super-serious, stoic, robot-like expressions can be unintentionally silly just for that reason.

* {{Narm}}: When you're not getting High-Octage NightmareFuel, some of the sequences can be just plain silly. Specific examples might include the ''Reichsarbeitsdienst'' sequence, with the work-men declaring where they're from. The sequence was reportedly rehearsed 50 times, like many other sequences, but the way the workers announce their birthplaces with super-serious, stoic, robot-like expressions can be unintentionally silly just for that reason.

* HarsherInHindsight: It was intended as a ''documentary'' film to show the Germans how great the Nazi regime was and how TheFutureWillBeBetter. However, since the end of WorldWarTwo it's difficult to watch this movie without keeping in mind what horrors all this would lead to in the end.

* {{Narm}}: When you're not getting High-Octage NightmareFuel, some of the sequences can be just plain silly. Specific examples might include the ''Reichsarbeitsdienst'' sequence, with the work-men declaring where they're from. The sequence was reportedly rehearsed 50 times, like many other sequences, but the way the workers announce their birthplaces with super-serious, stoic, robot-like expressions can be unintentionally just for that reason.

* {{Narm}}: When you're not gettibng High-Octage NightmareFuel, some of the sequences can be just plain silly. Specific examples might include the ''Reichsarbeitsdienst'' sequence, with the work-men declaring where they're from. The sequence was reportedly rehearsed 50 times, like many other sequences, but the way the workers announce their birthplaces with super-serious, stoic, robot-like expressions can be unintentionally just for that reason.

* {{Narm}}: The ''Reichsarbeitsdienst'' sequence, with the work-men declaring where they're from. The sequence was reportedly rehearsed 50 times, but the way the workers announce their birthplaces with super-serious, stoic, robot-like expressions can be unintentionally just for that reason.

* SequelDisplacement: Riefenstahl made this as a follow-up to ''Victory of Faith'', which chronicled the 1933 Party rally. That movie however was suppressed by the German government after the Night of the Long Knives, for prominently featuring Ernst Rohm and the SA. ''Victory'' remains comparatively obscure, and considered inferior by most who have seen it.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Unfunny isn't quite the right word, but this was quite an innovative movie when it was made, and has inspired many a scene (and originated some now fairly standard techniques) since then -- with the result that very little in the movie seems original after some seven decades of people copying things from it.

** The short segment with the SS ''Leibstandarten Adolf Hitler'' guys holding onto each other's belts in a show of camaraderie.

* HoYay: Not just the shirtless frolicking stormtroopers. Check out the glow in Rudolf Hess' eyes when he introduces Hitler's last speech.

* HoYay: Not just the shirtless frolicking stormtroopers. Check out the glow in Rudolf Hess' eyes when he introduces Hitler's last speech.
* IntendedAudienceReaction: See PropagandaMachine in the Film tab.