Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Nicholas KaufmannDirector
- Wilhelm PragerDirector
- Giuseppe BecceOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Leni RiefenstahlCast
- Jack DempseyCast
- Jenny HasselqvistCast
- Hertha von WaltherCast
- Etelka MaquitaCast
- La JanaCast
- Tamara KarsavinaCast
- Bac IshiiCast
- Niddy ImpekovenCast
- Josef HolubCast
- Eva LiebenbergCast
- Peter WladimiroffCast
Stills
Themes
black and whitesilent filmsuper strengthweight trainingbody imagebody builderssports herophysical conditionbeauty standardsself imagephysical activity