Ways to Strength and Beauty

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 16, 1925

Original language

German

Countries

Germany

Production

UFA

Cast

Etelka Maquita,Gerhart Hauptmann,La Jana,Johnny Weissmüller,Eva Liebenberg,Benito Mussolini,Tamara Karsavina,Leni Riefenstahl,Anita Berber,Camilla Hornand 10 more

Director

Nicholas Kaufmann,Wilhelm Prager

Cinematography

Friedrich Weinmann

Music

Giuseppe Becce

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0193620