UFA-Dabei 840/1972 29.08.1972

01 Munich: Opening XX. Olympic Games flags, Olympic buildings, swing. Gustav Heinemann with wife Hilda Heinemann. Willi Daume, Avery Brundage, Joachim Vogel arrive at the stadium. Invasion of the Nations, among other Japan, viewers with a Japanese flag, Mexico, USSR. As viewers of Willy Brandt, Prince Rainier, Princess Gracia Patricia. More Nations in the invasion: United States, Germany. Cameraman filming in the camouflaged, portable high chair. All Nations in the stadium, total. Gustav Heinemann, half total, Willy Brandt, Prince Hendrik of Denmark. Olympic flag worn by 8 men. The Olympic flag is highly raised. Folklore group from Mexico, dancing. Mayor of Mexico of Octavio Senties passes the Olympic tradition flag on Avery Brundage, who passes the flag at Munich Mayor Georg Kronawitter, Günter Zahn runs up the stairs and ignited the Olympic flame. Olympic fire is burning, great. The Olympic Oath is by Heidi spoken Schüller, total, o-ton: "In the name of all competitors I vow that we in fair competition in the Olympic Games take part and respect for the rules and follow." Pigeons are released, various teams in the stadium: Norway, Nigeria. Olympic Stadium from the top, totally.

02. Munich: Athletes at the conclusion of training athletes in training. A woman from Jamaica is running. Other athletes do exercises, jumping high, football, hockey player, women exercise on balance beam, floor and high bar.

03. Munich: Gold premiere at pistol shooting Bavarian viewers with leather pants and Seppelhüten. 4 men at the shooting range. Spectator with much romanticised hat. Ragnar Skanaker in the outdoor pistol wins gold: Ragnar Skanaker mobbed by reporters. Ragnar Skanaker, half total.

04. Augsburg: In a kayak gold and bronze for East German Olympic fire burns over the Niskanal. Whitewater riders among other Norbert Sattler from Austria, Siegbert Horn / DDR. Driving partly in ZL. Siegbert Horn, half total during the award ceremony.

05. Munich: art jumping women's swimming from the inside. Ulrike Knape, Sweden and Marina Janick / DDR jump. ZL and underwater images. Winner Miki King from United States 1 ½ Auerbach somersault with 1 ½ of times bolt.

06. Munich: 200 m Dolphin home. Mark Spitz leads all the time. Only Garry Hall and Robin Backhaus / United States can keep up. Hans Fassnacht on the outside. Mark Spitz swims ZL, total. Mark Spitz Gets the gold medal.

Opening of the XX. Olympus. Camera games: Luppa, a fire at the final training origin: INA pool gold premiere when pistol shooting origin: INA pool In the single-person kayak gold and bronze for DDR origin: INA pool springboard diving women's origin: INA-pool 200 m Dolphin - Mark Spitz origin: INA-pool at the beginning and end of total length

While in Munich - XX. Olympic Games without pomp and pathos 6 years after the election of Bavarian beer and Art Metropole to the World Sports Center on time, Olympic reality began for Munich and their guests.
80, 000 visitors experienced under the largest roof, which knows the building history, but in the smallest Olympic Stadium, which was built since the games in Helsinki in 1952, the first peak of the cheerful games. Glittering, histrionics and perfectly - as the sports Manager had promised to do - the opening ceremony took place. Kurt Edelhagen flavored the indentation of the Nations with newly arranged folk music of the teilenmenden countries.
The foreign registered amazed the departure of Prussian jaggedness and military pomp. The Paris ' journal you Dimanche': ' the decorum was terrific, wonderful and erdückend. Forget Tokyo, forget Mexico. We were projected in a different century.'
With the Federal President Heinemann opened prescribed the Olympic Protocol worded in the games: 'I declare the Olympic Games of Munich in 1972 to celebrate of the 20th Olympiad of modern open.'
Lasted almost three hours the Olympic spectacle, and 800 million people around the world - is so geschätzt-it took part - with the help of the mass media.
The handover of the Olympic flag of tradition - donated in 1920 by the Olympic Committee of Belgium - is one of the ceremonial highlights of the opening programme.
The Mayor of Mexico, Octavio Senties, passes them Avery Brundage, who passes it to Georg Kronawitter, the Lord Mayor of Munich. It is preserved in the Munich Town Hall to the next games. Günther Zahn, the last of 5.976 torch runners, German Junior Champion over the middle distance, lit the Olympic flame in the stadium, and with the Olympic Oath - Schüller, spoken by the German 100 m hurdle champion Heidi begins Olympic serious for all athletes.
'In the name of all competitors I vow that we will participate and observe the applicable rules in fair competition in the Olympic Games and follow.'

With commitment and motivation training zeal even moments before the start. The coveted medals - not for all taking part is more important than victory - fight around 10,000 athletes from 122 Nations. As usual come the numerically largest teams of the USSR, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. For the first time but the athletes from East Germany at the Olympic Games with its own team. The Olympic Stadium is the center of the sports facilities, the Olympic Park, but the Olympic of short distances itself changing the location allows sports fans during a game.
Under the giant umbrella of Aeryl that completely covered the sports halls and swimming pool, gymnasts compete for the Olympic precious metal. Athletes and officials are not stingy with applause for the construction of the Auditorium gene and their technical Ansstattung.
Bayern were interested first for shooting. On the shooting range in Munich-Hochbrück shooting sportsmen competed for the first medals at the 20th Olympics. Surprisingly the Olympic gold in the free pistol at the Sweden Ragna Skanaker went. The 38 year-old gas station owner before shooters won from Romania and Austria the with five points.

GDR - domain Olympic fire also on the Eiskanal in Augsburg. In the early 1970s, kayaks and canoe fight for the victory. The difficult course in the newly built 600 m-long Canal, which simulates natural whitewater, startled many canoeists. The 21-year old Austrian Norbert Sattler, led after the first round--surprising even for experts.
World Champion Siegbert Horn from the GDR, 17 demonstrated iron nerves and technical perfection. After the first pass, but first after two rounds. The slightly favored German canoeists come on number 4 and 5. The Bronzemedille the second GDR repeated Sprint Canoer: Harald Gimpel.

Glass dome jump to jump the lead in the women's springboard diving mode, artists under the preliminaries. Third parties will eventually Marina Janicke East behind Ulrika Knape from Sweden. With a 1 1/2 Auerbach somersault with 1 1/2 bolt his jumps finally Miki King from the United States hoped for gold.

Swimming star from United States off a hard-fought duel in the 200 m Dolphin between the Mannheimer Hans Fassnacht and Mark Spitz, United States, was nothing. The American Superman under the swimmers outclassed his opponents. He was superior from the start on.
Only his compatriots Garry Hall and Robin Backhaus can keep up. Mans Fassnacht - on the unfavorable outside - can't find his form and is just fifth. Mark Spitz, by which his coach says that he has become wiser since his disappointing performance in Mexico four years ago ten years, won in a new world record time of 2 minutes and 70-hundredths of a second. It is the first of the seven gold medals, he has set itself the goal.

Date of Release:

29.08.1972

Year of Production:

1972

Camera Work:

Brandes, Klaus; Luppa

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Ina-Pool

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German