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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.
Cast
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
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