Ways to Strength and Beauty
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| Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit - Ein Film über moderne Körperkultur | |
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| Directed by | Nicholas Kaufmann, Wilhelm Prager |
| Produced by | Alfred Stern, Ufa-Kulturfilmabteilung |
| Written by | Nicholas Kaufmann, Wilhelm Prager, Ernst Krieger |
| Starring | Rudolf Bode, Carola de la Riva, Jack Dempsey, Lloyd George, Jenny Hasselqvist, Gerhart Hauptmann, Camilla Horn, Niddy Impekoven, Bac Ishii, Konami Ishii, La Jana, Tamara Karsavina, Rocky Knight, Rudolf Kobs, Eve Liebenberg, Bess Mensendieck, Benito Mussolini, Ellen Petz, Babe Ruth, Hertha von Walther, Johnny Weissmüller, Carr Wills, Helen Wills, Peter Wladimiroff, the Mary Wigman dancing school, including Leni Riefenstahl |
| Music by | Giuseppe Becce |
| Cinematography | Eugen Hirsch, Friedrich Paulmann, Friedrich Weinmann, Max Brink, Jakob Schatzow (slow-motion), Erich Stöcker (slow-motion), Gerhard Riebicke, Helmy Hurt |
| Release date(s) | March 16, 1925 (UFA-Palast am Zoo, Berlin) |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Country | Weimar Germany |
| Language | Silent film German intertitles |
| IMDb profile | |
Ways to strength and beauty (Orig. Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit) is a 1925 Ufa-Kulturfilmabteilung of Weimar Germany directed by Alfred Stern.
The action was an idealized, somewhat naive approximation to the health and beauty in conformity with nature. The film offered a contrast to the rather hopeless living in the city of Berlin and other large cities of Germany during the twenties and became an immediate success quite from the beginning. Finally it became the most popular and most important German kulturfilm of this period.
