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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 Blue AngeI is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectabiIity, 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 pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a locaI nightcIub songstress, he decides to personaIIy investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy BIue AngeI nightclub and steaIs one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (MarIene Dietrich), commanding the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's seIf-righteous piety is crushed. He finds himself fatefulIy seduced by the throaty voice of the vuIgar siren, singing, "FaIling ln Love Again." Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath aIlows himseIf to be dragged down a path of personaI degradation.
Lola's unrestrained sexuaIity was a revelation to turn-of-the-decade moviegoers, thrusting Dietrich to the forefront of the suItry internationaI Ieading Iadies, such as Greta Garbo, who were chalIenging the limits of screen sexuality. |
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