Ways to Strength and Beauty

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.

Genre: Documentary

Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Jack Dempsey, Jenny Hasselqvist, Hertha von Walther, Etelka Maquita, La Jana

Crew: Wilhelm Prager (Director), Nicholas Kaufmann (Director), Friedrich Paulmann (Camera Operator), Eugen Hrich (Camera Operator), Giuseppe Becce (Original Music Composer), Kurt Neubert (Camera Operator)

Country: Germany

Language: No Language

Studio: UFA

Runtime: 104 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Mar 16, 1925

IMDb: 3.9

Keywords:black and white, silent film, super strength, weight training, body image, body builders, sports hero, physical condition, beauty standards, self image, physical activity

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