Path to the power and beauty / Wege zu Kraft und Schonheit - by Wilhelm Prager (1925)

Time to restore justice: the film "The Path to the power and beauty" created in 1925 by William Prager (director) and Nicholas Kaufman (screenwriter) - a remarkable work cinematography.
Conceived from a purely practical purpose - to instill an interest in German youth culture of the body, healthy lifestyles, and gave a graphic and convincing picture of how the physical rehabilitation of the nation, this film is replete with cinematic qualities.
The film, which could easily turn into a boring lecture on the benefits of gymnastics, captures its visual culture and precise rhythm literally since the first frames.
It is equally flawless, however, short episodes of authors show the audience how the possibility of a human body and how "solid construction", and stressing the absolute simplicity and accessibility of these methods for each.
And what man can achieve, with respect relating to the body, we have shown in chapters "Rhythm", "Dance", "Sport" - which depicted the legendary performances of dancers and athletes.
Among them - the great Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, the creators and promoters of modern-dance: Rudolph Laban (Hungary), Nidd Impekofen (Germany) and Darling Birch (Russia), the Japanese avant-garde dancer, Baku Ishii, students dance schools Hedwig Hagemann, Mary Wigman and Anna Hermann, a Spanish dancer Caroline de la Riva, a Swedish dancer Jenny Hasselkvist, Russian dancer, Petrov Vladimir …
Equally impressive list of famous athletes participating in the movie - the Olympic champion from the United States, Germany, Australia, Italy, whose victories were achieved through the development of natural capabilities of human body, rather than by pumping doping and steroids; Paddock, Wills, Cobbs, Riley Nadi, Lubero, Houben - their names are forever inscribed in the history of sports.
Sports scenes shot with a special location in many ways anticipated the great shots "Olympia" Leni Riefenstahl.
Once again, a historical reconstruction - a legendary jump in six horses in ancient Teutonic Knights, performed by modern athletes. In cinematic terms - an episode, not inferior to scenes of the second part of the "Nibelungen"!
"But then the athletes …" is ready to tell the audience. But the authors, returning to the present, show that it suffices FIVE minutes a day (system Dane Johannes P. Muller), to dramatically improve the condition of his body.
Well, for those who believe sport "dishonorable" occupation - an example of the British prime minister, the Norwegian royal family and looks like a real Jupiter, the great Gerhard Hauptmann …
You need to be very blinkered person to this cinematic hymn to the beauty and power of person to see the harmonious praise of Nazism, as it did in his highly tendentious book From Caligari to Hitler's Siegfried Krakauer.
But what happened to some extent, explainable in 1947 (year of the first edition of this book), is seen as utter savagery in our days, when you read on the IMDb has a unique (insulting tone and vile content) Reviews: This isn't a Nazi movie, but it comes directly out of the same school of thought which facilitated the rise of Nazism. »
Yes, in a few years since the premiere of the film, and the two chiefs, each different from another form of whiskers, but an equal in his butchery, will welcome athletes from the stands ranks, but this is not no "guilt" the authors of the film, who believed sincerely that "not a military drill, and the sport will become a source of strength of the nation".


Production Land : german
Run time: 90 min

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