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.

Release Date : Mar 16, 1925

Runtime : 1h 44m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : UFA

Countries : Germany

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