Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
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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