Secret of Beauty and Youth
Clarissa Patrix
»Sport, sauna bath, massage and gymnastics are good for the health, beauty and youth […] boost performance and mobilise all the body’s natural defences.«
– Text panel in Geheimnis um Schönheit und Jugend
Two secretaries from Berlin go to a Finnish sauna after work. The film explains the exact sequence: from the length of the sauna session to the correct form of cooling-down and massage. The al-fresco gym exercises afterwards are reminiscent of Leni Riefenstahl’s athletic body scenes.
Clarissa Patrix
Clarissa Patrix (or Clarissa Patrix-Dreyer), born 1908 in Berlin, was a documentary film director and screenwriter. From the mid-1930s onwards, she worked as an assistant and later as a film director for the Herbert Dreyer Production Company. At least five films are attributed to her during the period leading up to 1945. In the 1950s, she made four films.
Films by Clarissa Patrix
Fischerlied am Lago Maggiore 1956 | Die Provence 1955/56 | Weinlese in der Wachau 1954 | Im Hafen Duisburg-Ruhrort 1948/1949 | Montparnasse 1957 | Kurenfischer 1941 | Alle Segel klar 1939 | Ernstes Lernen, freudiges Schaffen 1937 | Das Haus der armen Seelen 1936
