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Ways to Strength and Beauty

7.1 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.

Directed by Nicholas Kaufmann

VISUAL ARCHIVE

Selected stills from the film

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CAST

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Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey
Jenny Hasselqvist
Jenny Hasselqvist
Hertha von Walther
Hertha von Walther
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Etelka Maquita
La Jana
La Jana
Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Karsavina
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Bac Ishii
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