Ways to Strength and Beauty

1h 44m
Documentary
7.1

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
Unknown
Jack Dempsey
Unknown
Jenny Hasselqvist
Unknown
Hertha von Walther
Unknown
Etelka Maquita
Unknown
La Jana
Unknown
Tamara Karsavina
Unknown
Bac Ishii
Unknown
Niddy Impekoven
Unknown
Josef Holub
Unknown
Eva Liebenberg
Unknown
Peter Wladimiroff
Unknown
Camilla Horn
Unknown
Babe Ruth
Unknown
Benito Mussolini
Unknown
Carolina de la Riva
Unknown
Josephine Baker
Unknown
Anita Berber
Unknown
Johnny Weissmüller
Unknown
Gerhart Hauptmann
Unknown

Crew

Nicholas Kaufmann
Director
Wilhelm Prager
Director
Friedrich Weinmann
Director of Photography
Max Brink
Camera Operator
Friedrich Paulmann
Camera Operator
Kurt Neubert
Camera Operator
Eugen Hrich
Camera Operator
Giuseppe Becce
Original Music Composer

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