Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

1925 · Silent film · 104 min · dir. Nicholas Kaufmann

• Documentary

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Synopsis

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.

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Details

Director

Nicholas Kaufmann

Composer

Giuseppe Becce

Cinematography

Friedrich Weinmann

Studio

UFA

Released

1925-03-16

Original title

Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit

Running time

104 minutes

Cast & crew

• NNicholas Kaufmann Director
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Jack Dempsey
• Jenny Hasselqvist
• Hertha von Walther
• Etelka Maquita
• La Jana
• Tamara Karsavina
• BBac Ishii

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