The OG thirst trap — 1925 Berlin made muscles into religion.
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.
Cinematography
Stylized nude Greek poses that invented fitness aesthetics.
Production
Mass choreography of bodies as visual architecture.
Director
Wilhelm Prager
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Leni Riefenstahl appears briefly as a dancer here, five years before directing 'The Blue Light' and a decade before her Nazi propaganda masterpieces.
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