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.

Dialogue Timeline — 275 lines

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00:00:01 Ways to Strength and Beauty
00:00:42 Part One: The ancient Greeks and the new era
00:02:26 In ancient Greece, the main activity at a "gymnasium" was gymnastics
00:05:11 But rest assured: Your sins will come to light.
00:08:09 study and admire the works of the ancient Greeks.
00:11:49 The beginning of all physical activity is to compensate for existing damage.
00:15:33 Swedish gymnastics on the wall bars...
00:17:36 A truly beautiful woman does not need a corset.
00:20:29 Illustration of different sounds through different steps:
00:23:03 Niddy Impekoven, the famous dancer, shows us the artistic relationship ...
00:26:43 A study on balance
00:34:33 Bavarian Fantasy: A Poacher's Dance (The struggle for the loot)
00:40:53 Japan's Bac Ishii in his pantomime "The Prisoner"
00:49:11 Just as in ancient Greece, running is still the first and ...
00:51:15 Note the perfect style of the man in the middle (Riley, USA).
00:58:28 Fencing
01:00:57 Training with 16-ounce gloves.
01:07:27 Young Americans playing golf
01:10:15 One more horse!
01:13:01 ...and the immediate tightening when throwing.
01:15:13 Lord Balfour plaing tennis
01:20:58 The great ruins in Rome attest to this fact.
01:26:24 In our time, mostly young men cultivate physical training

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed275
Dialogue density2.6 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:26:24

Production Record

DirectorWilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes171