Ways to Strength and Beauty

1925 · 104 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 171 VOTES · DIR. Wilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann

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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.

Documentary1920s

Dialogue Timeline — 275 lines

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00:00:01 Ways to Strength and Beauty
00:00:38 Slow-motion cinematography by Schatzow and Stöcker
00:02:09 Idiot!
00:04:41 during our leisure time.
00:08:06 It is not sufficient that these people
00:11:37 Gymnastics for Schoolchildren
00:15:00 Saturday afternoon on the Thames
00:17:08 ...and even today vanity affects the health of many women.
00:20:14 Thus the immediate reaction to every change trains the presence of mind.
00:22:57 Hit
00:26:26 Deep breathing
00:33:57 India (Burma)
00:38:32 ... Dying
00:48:37 High jump
00:51:04 Lehninger (Charlottenburg Sports Club)
00:56:47 Hans Luber, Berlin, springboard diving champion
01:00:08 Long-distance running to reduce weight.
01:07:05 The decision:
01:09:02 The rivals
01:12:47 Anyone who takes this pill does not need another medicine.
01:14:29 (The four Neff brothers from Garmisch)
01:20:18 Sunbathing
01:26:11 Brassieres were known even to antiquity.
01:29:24 The End

Cast & Characters

Josephine Baker Anita Berber Kitty Cauer Self Jenny Hasselqvist Self Gerhart Hauptmann Self Josef Holub Niddy Impekoven Self Bac Ishii Dancer Tamara Karsavina Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed275
Dialogue density2.6 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:29:24

Production Record

DirectorWilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes171