Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
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
Released: Mar 16, 1925
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Genre: Documentary
Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Jack Dempsey, Jenny Hasselqvist, Hertha von Walther, Etelka Maquita, La Jana, Tamara Karsavina, Bac Ishii, Niddy Impekoven, Josef Holub, Eva Liebenberg
Subtitle: ETC.