Ways to Strength and Beauty
Ways to Strength and Beauty

Ways to Strength and Beauty

7.1(4 votes)
1925
1h 44m
Documentary

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.

Production

UFA

Cast

Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey

Jenny Hasselqvist

Jenny Hasselqvist

Hertha von Walther

Hertha von Walther

Etelka Maquita

Etelka Maquita

La Jana

La Jana

Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Karsavina

Bac Ishii

Bac Ishii

Niddy Impekoven

Niddy Impekoven

Josef Holub

Josef Holub

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