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Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 44M

Director : Nicholas Kaufmann, Wilhelm Prager

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.

Actors

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
Eva Liebenberg
Eva Liebenberg
Peter Wladimiroff
Peter Wladimiroff
Camilla Horn
Camilla Horn
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Carolina de la Riva
Carolina de la Riva
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Anita Berber
Anita Berber
Johnny Weissmüller
Johnny Weissmüller
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann

Crews

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

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