The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel) (NR)

synopsis

Following up his role in von Sternberg's great silent The Last Command, Emil Jannings portrays a schoolteacher named Immanuel Rath, whose fateful expedition to catch his students frequenting the cabaret known as The Blue Angel leads to his own rapture with the establishment's main attraction Lola (Dietrich) and, as a result, triggers the downward spiral of his life and fortune.