Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
Overview
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.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | de |
| Popularity | 1.042 |
Directed By
Wilhelm Prager
Nicholas Kaufmann
Crew
Wilhelm Prager
Nicholas Kaufmann
Friedrich Paulmann
Eugen Hrich
Giuseppe Becce
Kurt Neubert
Max Brink
Friedrich Weinmann
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