Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925) - Documentary Movies 104 minutes. Path to the Power and Beauty, Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit, Vejen til Kraft og Skønhed. 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. black and white, silent film, super strength, weight training, body image, body builders, sports hero, physical condition, beauty standards, self image, physical activity
Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
Path to the Power and Beauty, Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit, Vejen til Kraft og Skønhed-
Released: Mar 16, 1925
Runtime: 104 minutes
: 3.9/10 by 4 users
Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Jack Dempsey, Jenny Hasselqvist, Hertha von Walther, Etelka Maquita, La Jana
Crew: Nicholas Kaufmann (Director), Wilhelm Prager (Director), Max Brink (Camera Operator), Friedrich Paulmann (Camera Operator), Giuseppe Becce (Original Music Composer), Kurt Neubert (Camera Operator)
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.
