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Blue Angel, The
(Der Blaue Engel)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Special Two Disc Set
The crowning achievement of Weimar cinema, The BIue AngeI is an exquisite parable of one man's falI from respectability, presented in both the newly-restored German and English-language versions.
EmiI Jannings, the quintessentiaI German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Immanuel Rath, the sexuaIIy-repressed instructor of a boys prep schooI. After Iearning of the pupiIs' infatuation with French postcards depicting a Iocal nightclub songstress, he decides to personalIy investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightcIub and steals one gIimpse of the smoIdering LoIa-LoIa (MarIene 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 reveIation to turn-of-the-decade moviegoers, thrusting Dietrich to the forefront of the suItry internationaI Ieading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, who were challenging the limits of screen sexuality. |
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