Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

7.1/10 104 min Documentary

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.

Cast

Leni Riefenstahl

Jack Dempsey

Jenny Hasselqvist

Hertha von Walther

Etelka Maquita

La Jana

Tamara Karsavina

Niddy Impekoven

Camilla Horn

Babe Ruth

Benito Mussolini

Josephine Baker

Anita Berber

Johnny Weissmüller

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