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

Leni Riefenstahl

Jack Dempsey

Jenny Hasselqvist

Hertha von Walther

Etelka Maquita

La Jana

Tamara Karsavina
Bac Ishii
Niddy Impekoven
Josef Holub
Eva Liebenberg
Peter Wladimiroff

Camilla Horn

Babe Ruth

Benito Mussolini
Carolina de la Riva

Josephine Baker

Anita Berber

Johnny Weissmüller
Gerhart Hauptmann
Crews
Nicholas Kaufmann
Director
Wilhelm Prager
Director
Max Brink
Camera Operator
Friedrich Paulmann
Camera Operator

Giuseppe Becce
Original Music Composer
Kurt Neubert
Camera Operator
Eugen Hrich
Camera Operator
Friedrich Weinmann
Director of Photography