Ways to Strength and Beauty
1 h 44 min
1925DE
Documentary
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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.
Movie 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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