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Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

Documentary
Release Date: 1925, March 16
Directors: Wilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann
Countries: Germany
Production: UFA

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.

Keywords:

super strength black and white beauty standards self image silent film body image body builders weight training sports hero physical condition physical activity