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Blue Angel, The (1930)
Rating:
Starring: Dietrich, Marlene, Emil Jannings
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Category: Avant Garde, Drama, Classics, Classics
Studio: Kino Video
Subtitles:
English
Length:
200 mins

 
 

 

Special Two Disc Set

The crowning achievement of Weimar cinema, The Blue Angel is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability, presented in both the newly-restored German and English-language versions.

Emil Jannings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Immanuel Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys prep school.After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency.But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich), commanding the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed.He finds himself fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren, singing, "Falling In Love Again."Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath allows himself to be dragged down a path of personal degradation.

Lola's unrestrained sexuality was a revelation to turn-of-the-decade moviegoers, thrusting Dietrich to the forefront of the sultry international leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, who were challenging the limits of screen sexuality.

 
 
   
   

 
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