Synopsis:
What is the perfect body – and how do you get it? People were already grappling with these questions 100 years ago. Wilhelm Prager’s and Nicholas Kaufmann’s documentary “Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit” (Ways to Strength and Beauty), filmed in 1925 for the UFA cultural department, first criticises modern society, which weakens and deforms the human body through industrial work and office activities. According to the motto “A healthy mind lives in a healthy body”, the didactically prepared educational film aims in six chapters at a re-appropriation of a physical ideal state according to the model of antiquity and propagates above all physical training for this purpose.

The most radical thing about Prager’s film is its revealing imagery: the naked or scantily clad human body is literally celebrated in stylised documentary scenes during the most diverse activities – body care, gymnastics, sport and dance. In the 1920s, this struck a chord with the times: it was an expression of a new body consciousness that had been established since the beginning of the 20th century in the form of the life reform movement and naturalism. But “Ways to Strength and Beauty” is also a valuable film-historical document that can be seen as an ideological precursor of the National Socialist cult of the body, as it was later celebrated in propaganda films by Leni Riefenstahl, for example. Riefenstahl appears in Prager’s film as an extra in a dance group.

Wege zu Kraft und Schoenheit (1925).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 48 min
Size: 	4.66 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/5BC4F17B19E632D/Wege_zu_Kraft_und_Schoenheit_(1925).mkv

Language(s):No dialogue
Subtitles:German intertitles

The post Nicholas Kaufmann & Wilhelm Prager – Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit – Ein Film über moderne Körperkultur AKA Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he’s accused of murder.

Zouzou.1934.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
Size: 	1.74 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
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#1:  	French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 180 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/444497388516235/Zouzou.1934.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Marc Allégret – Zou Zou (1934) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Gabrielle, an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES’s white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and scantily attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats including the Tiller’s Follies Girls, Ruth Zackey and the Hoffmann Girls, and danseuse russe Lila Nikolska. But it’s Josephine Baker, “the high priestess of primitivism”, who triumphs in two show stopping numbers in which “her clownish backfield-in-motion Charleston shimmy is unlike anything else in the movie and perhaps unlike anything anyone ever did”.
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Grâce au soutien de l’acteur Georges Barsac, Gabrielle, petite main auprès d’un grand couturier, va devenir une star de music-hall sous le nom de scène de Gaby Dery. A la fin, elle connaîtra non seulement un succès phénoménal, mais également le grand amour.

Un film qui donne également à voir des grandes pointures du du music-hall comme Joséphine Baker, Lila Nikolska, Stanisłava Velska ou les Tiller Girls.

https://nitro.download/view/F55ED1332EA32AD/La_revue_des_revues.1927.720p.WEB-DL.AAC.mkv

Language(s):Silent – Musical track
Subtitles:English – German

The post Joe Francis – La revue des revues AKA Parisian Pleasures (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.