The Making Of Triumph Of The Spirit - Filming in Auschwitz 1989

This is the original full version of my documentary “The Making of Triumph of the Spirit“ starring Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, and Robert Loggia. The movie was previously posted in 5 parts on my YogiEv channel. That was my first YouTube channel. Back then, uploads had to be short. Here, you can watch the whole documentary in its entirety. I produced this documentary in Auschwitz over a 4 month period in 1989 as a sub-project to a feature film I was working on. Poland was still under Communist rule for the first 2 months we were there. We had unprecedented access to shoot film and video inside industrial complexes like the Katowice Steel Mill. It was an amazing time to be on the planet, seeing Eastern Europe at the fall of Communism. When Communism fell it took weeks for the news to disseminate thru Poland. We heard about it from our friends in California and the locals in Poland thought it was a mean joke, they didn’t believe us that their country was free; th