Documentary · Germany · 1925 · 1h 44m

Ways to Strength and Beauty

Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit

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Director
Nicholas KaufmannWilhelm Prager
Cast
Leni Riefenstahl as Jack Dempsey as Jenny Hasselqvist as Hertha von Walther as Etelka Maquita as La Jana as
Crew
Friedrich Weinmann — Director of Photography Giuseppe Becce — Original Music Composer
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
black and whitesilent filmsuper strengthweight trainingbody imagebody builderssports herophysical conditionbeauty standardsself imagephysical activity
Key Collaborators
Nicholas Kaufmann Director Wilhelm Prager Director Friedrich Weinmann Director of Photography Giuseppe Becce Original Music Composer
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