"The Blue Angel"
1930
Directed by Josef von Sternberg

The crowning achievement of Weimar Cinema.  Josef von Sternberg's adaptation of Heinrich Mann's novel about a repressed school teacher (Emil Jannings) who is seduced and destroyed by his demonic obsession for nightclub singer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich). "The film is striking for its creative use of sound and its impressive recreation of the sleazy atmosphere of cabaret life" (David Cook, The History of Narrative Film). With Kurt Gerron, Hans Albers and Eduard von Winterstein. German with English subtitles.  B&W.  108 minutes.