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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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