Ways to Strength and Beauty

Mar 16, 1925

1h 44m

★ 7.1

Overview

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.

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Documentary

Production Companies

UFA

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Cast

Leni Riefenstahl

Jack Dempsey

Jenny Hasselqvist

Hertha von Walther

Etelka Maquita

La Jana

Tamara Karsavina

Bac Ishii

Niddy Impekoven

Josef Holub

Eva Liebenberg

Peter Wladimiroff

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