CLASSIC FILM SERIES

The Blue Angel (1930)

“Dietrich brought to her role a haunting combination of freshness and world-weariness."
- Detroit Free Press

“The first film collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, this reeks with decay and sexuality.”
- Chicago Reader

SYNOPSIS: The crowning achievement of the Weimar cinema, THE BLUE ANGEL is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability, and the film that catapulted Marlene Dietrich to international stardom.
Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) stars as Professor Rath, the sexually repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the matter. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Dietrich), Rath is fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren. (Kino)