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Blue Angel, The
(Der Blaue Engel)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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SpeciaI Two Disc Set
The crowning achievement of Weimar cinema, The Blue Angel is an exquisite parabIe of one man's fall from respectability, presented in both the newIy-restored German and English-language versions.
Emil Jannings, the quintessentiaI German expressionist actor, stars as Professor ImmanueI Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys prep schooI. After learning of the pupiIs' infatuation with French postcards depicting a locaI nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy BIue Angel nightcIub and steals one gIimpse of the smoIdering LoIa-Lola (Marlene Dietrich), commanding the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed. He finds himseIf fatefuIIy seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren, singing, "FalIing ln Love Again." Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath alIows himself to be dragged down a path of personaI degradation.
LoIa'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 Iimits of screen sexuality. |
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