12 May 1929
Man with a Movie Camera
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
Ways to Strength and Beauty
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.
Top Billed 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 
Camilla Horn 
Babe Ruth 
Benito Mussolini Carolina de la Riva 
Josephine Baker 
Anita Berber 
Johnny Weissmüller
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