
Ways to Strength and Beauty
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1hr
44mins
Directed by
Nicholas Kaufmann,
Wilhelm Prager,
Starring
Jack Dempsey,
Jenny Hasselqvist,
Hertha von Walther,
Etelka Maquita
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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.