Ways to Strength and Beauty

1925·1h 44m7.1Documentary

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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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

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Bac Ishii

Niddy Impekoven

Niddy Impekoven

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Josef Holub

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Eva Liebenberg

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Peter Wladimiroff

Camilla Horn

Camilla Horn

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

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Carolina de la Riva

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

Anita Berber

Anita Berber

Johnny Weissmüller

Johnny Weissmüller

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Gerhart Hauptmann