Ways to Strength and Beauty

Ways to Strength and Beauty

104 mins | March 16, 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.

Ways to Strength and Beauty

104 mins | March 16, 1925

Ways to Strength and Beauty

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.

IMDb rating	5.8
Producers	Universum Film (UFA)
Original title	Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit
Directors	Wilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann
Writers

Cast

Leni Riefenstahl

as

Jack Dempsey

as

Jenny Hasselqvist

as

Hertha von Walther

as

Etelka Maquita

as

La Jana

as

Tamara Karsavina

as

Bac Ishii

as

Niddy Impekoven

as

Josef Holub

as

Eva Liebenberg

as

Peter Wladimiroff

as

Camilla Horn

as

Babe Ruth

as

Benito Mussolini

as

Carolina de la Riva

as

Josephine Baker

as

Anita Berber

as

Johnny Weissmüller

as

Gerhart Hauptmann

as