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Ways to Strength and Beauty

  • March 1925
  • 1hr

    44mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Nicholas Kaufmann,

    Wilhelm Prager,

    Starring

    Jack Dempsey,

    Jenny Hasselqvist,

    Hertha von Walther,

    Etelka Maquita

    ...

    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.