The White Stadium

{{Short description|1928 film}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox film

|name = The White Stadium

|image = The White Stadium.jpg

|caption = German film poster

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Das weiße Stadion}}

|director = Arnold Fanck

|editing = Walter Ruttmann

|cinematography = Sepp Allgeier
Hans Schneeberger

|studio = Olympia-Film

|distributor = UFA

|released = {{Film date|1928|3|19|df=yes}}

|runtime =

|country = Switzerland

|language = Silent
German intertitles

}}

The White Stadium (German: Das weiße Stadion) is a 1928 Swiss documentary film directed by Arnold Fanck about the 1928 Winter Olympics which were held in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz. The film received the backing of the International Olympic Committee and was the first of the Winter Olympic feature films to be made.White, Rob & Buscombe, Edward (2003) [https://books.google.com/books?id=V96tee1l2q8C&pg=PA376 British Film Institute Film Classics] BFI {{ISBN|9781579583286}} Vol 1, Page 376

It was financed and distributed by the major German studio UFA, but was not a commercial or critical success.Hinton, David B. The Films of Leni Riefenstahl. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. pp. 47-48. {{ISBN|1578860091}}.

Fanck's protégé Leni Riefenstahl later directed the much more successful Olympia portraying the 1936 Berlin Olympics.