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SKÖN FILMANDE DANSÖS
Den vackra bilden härinvid föreställer den tyska dansösen Leni Riefensthal såsom hon framträder i den stora Vfa-filmen Bergens hemlighet. Dansösen har här den icke så lätta uppgiften att framhäva sin egen skönhet bredvid den naturprakt, som scenerierna frän Alperna erbjuda i den märkliga filmen.
BEAUTIFUL DANCE FILM
The beautiful picture next depicts the German dancer Leni Riefensthal as she appears in the great VfA film Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain). The dancer has the not so easy task of emphasizing her own beauty next to the natural splendor that the scenery from the Alps offer in the strange film. | src Scenen (1927) at Projekt Runeberg

Photographer Helmy Hurt (active 1920s) had a photography studio in Berlin and together with Gerhard Riebicke she was the set photographer for the UFA film «Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit. Ein Film über moderne Körperkultur» (1925), directed by Wilhelm Prager and Dr. Nicolaus Kaufmann.

Along with Helmy Hurt, Gerhard Riebicke was the set photographer for the UFA film «Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit. Ein Film über moderne Körperkultur» (1925), directed by Wilhelm Prager and Nicolaus Kaufmann (casting, among others, Jack Dempsey and Leni Riefenstahl). This image still captures the general mood of the earlier FKK nudist movement which stressed the importance of movement and exercise outdoors. (quoted from src)

Abe Frajndlich
:: Leni Riefenstahl, Frankfurt, 2000 / src: pleasurephoto
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