Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

Original title

Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit

Directed by

Wilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann

Genre

documentary film, silent film, sport film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent documentary shows people doing physical exercises and natural body movements to achieve health and beauty. It contrasts these healthy lifestyles with the less hopeful lives in big cities like Berlin in the 1920s.

idealisticnostalgicupliftingslowdidacticobservationalwholesome

What happens

Ways to Strength and Beauty (German: Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit) is a 1925 German cultural film directed by Wilhelm Prager. The 125 minute full-length silent film was produced by Ufa-Kulturabteilung of Weimar Germany. The film was first screened on 16 March 1925 and in a revised version on 11 June 1926 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. The documentary was an idealized, somewhat naive depiction of health and beauty in conformity with nature. The film offered a contrast to the rather hopeless lifestyles available in Berlin and other large cities of Germany during the 1920s and became an immediate success. It was the most popular and important German kulturfilm (cultural film) of this period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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