Ways to Strength and Beauty

7.1 / 10

(4 votes)

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.

Country:

Germany

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

1925

Director:

Nicholas Kaufmann

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Company:

UFA

Cast:
Leni Riefenstahl

Jack Dempsey

Jenny Hasselqvist

Hertha von Walther

Etelka Maquita

Crew:
Nicholas Kaufmann

Director

Wilhelm Prager

Director

Friedrich Weinmann

Director of Photography

Eugen Hrich

Camera Operator

Friedrich Paulmann

Camera Operator