1930 · drama
The Blue Angel
Directed by Josef von Sternberg1h 48m1930
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Our read: The Blue Angel (1930) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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“You want a classic German tragedy of dignity shredded by desire and cabaret glitter.”
Skip it tonight — You want anything light tonight; this humiliation spiral ends in pure psychic ruin.
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