WEGE ZU KRAFT UND SCHONHEIT (Ways to Strength and Beauty)

Rare vintage postcard
3.5 x 5.5 inches
NF

While Arnold Fanck's 1926 film, Der heilige Berg, is most often referred to as Leni Riefenstahl's début on the silver screen, there is substantial evidence that she had pursued movie roles much earlier than this, and had actually appeared in at least one film, namely, Nicholas Kaufmann and Wilhelm Prager's Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (for reference, see the article included in this section, Leni Riefenstahl's Film Début). It should be noted, however, that her appearance in this film would have been as little more than an extra, performing a non-speaking part as just one of many other dancers featured in the film, and thus it could still be reasonably stated that her role as Diotima in Der heilige Berg was indeed her first "real" role of any genuine significance in any feature film. - www.riefenstahl.org