The Blue Angel
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer. Germany 1924. Middle aged Dr. Immanuel Rath is a stuffy literature professor at a boys' schoo…
The Blue Angel
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer. Germany 1924. Middle aged Dr. Immanuel Rath is a stuffy literature professor at a boys' school. Most of his students don't much like him, often ridiculing him by sending him unflattering anonymous notes and drawings. Dr. Rath learns that many of his boys often frequent a cabaret called the Blue Angel, which he believes is corrupting their impressionable young minds. He heads to the Blue Angel himself to catch the boys in the act, shame them into not going again, but also to ask the headlining performer, anglophone Lola Lola, to cease and desist performing her show. Over several visits, Rath is able to catch the boys, but he himself starts to fall for Lola, and she seemingly with him. His infatuation with her threatens his teaching career. Their relationship ends up not being what either envisioned, the question being how they will both deal with their disintegrating relationship and the reasons behind that disintegration. —Huggo Concerned that some of his students are being corrupted by the entertainment at a local club, the Blue Angel, Professor Immanuel Rath pays a visit to the establishment intent on having his charges barred from the premises. There, however, he meets Lola Lola and quickly becomes infatuated with her and thus begins the professor's downward spiral. They are married but he is forced to leave his teaching position and is soon working at odd jobs for the traveling cabaret troupe. When the troupe once again finds itself performing at the Blue Angel, Rath visits his old school, a broken man. —garykmcd An ignoble and utterly unacceptable behaviour inside the classroom will eventually drag the respected and ethically unyielding gymnasium professor, Immanuel Rath, to the shabby Blue Angel--the cheap and questionable post-WWI German vaudeville cabaret where his students often frequent. Bent on putting an end to their continuous demoralisation by the theatre's enchanting star, Lola Lola, the iron-fisted academic will fall from grace, as his swift amorous infatuation leads to marriage. In the end, over the following years, a debased and entirely changed Rath will nurture an intense and obsessive fixation on Lola; however, one final mortification still awaits the professor in his hometown. Will Immanuel ever bounce back? —Nick Riganas The respected and ethically unyielding gymnasium professor, Immanuel Rath, reluctantly enters the loud and smoke-filled realm of the shabby Blue Angel--the cheap and questionable post-WWI German vaudeville cabaret where his students often frequent--after an ignoble and utterly unacceptable behaviour inside the classroom. Intent on catching them in the act to end once and for all their continuous demoralisation by the theatre's enchanting songstress, Lola Lola, Immanuel will soon fall from grace, as his blind and deep-rooted infatuation leads to matrimony. In the end, over the following five years, a degraded and entirely changed Rath will nurture a steady and equally unremitting fixation on Lola; however, one final mortification still awaits the good professor in his hometown. Can Immanuel ever bounce back? —Nick Riganas
The Blue Angel
Drama,Music,Romance
Film Details
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer. Germany 1924. Middle aged Dr.
Immanuel Rath is a stuffy literature professor at a boys' school. Most of his students don't much like him, often ridiculing him by sending him unflattering anonymous notes and drawings. Dr.
Rath learns that many of his boys often frequent a cabaret called the Blue Angel, which he believes is corrupting their impressionable young minds. He heads to the Blue Angel himself to catch the boys in the act, shame them into not going again, but also to ask the headlining performer, anglophone Lola Lola, to cease and desist performing her show. Over several visits, Rath is able to catch the boys, but he himself starts to fall for Lola, and she seemingly with him.
His infatuation with her threatens his teaching career. Their relationship ends up not being what either envisioned, the question being how they will both deal with their disintegrating relationship and the reasons behind that disintegration. —Huggo Concerned that some of his students are being corrupted by the entertainment at a local club, the Blue Angel, Professor Immanuel Rath pays a visit to the establishment intent on having his charges barred from the premises.
There, however, he meets Lola Lola and quickly becomes infatuated with her and thus begins the professor's downward spiral. They are married but he is forced to leave his teaching position and is soon working at odd jobs for the traveling cabaret troupe. When the troupe once again finds itself performing at the Blue Angel, Rath visits his old school, a broken man.
—garykmcd An ignoble and utterly unacceptable behaviour inside the classroom will eventually drag the respected and ethically unyielding gymnasium professor, Immanuel Rath, to the shabby Blue Angel--the cheap and questionable post-WWI German vaudeville cabaret where his students often frequent. Bent on putting an end to their continuous demoralisation by the theatre's enchanting star, Lola Lola, the iron-fisted academic will fall from grace, as his swift amorous infatuation leads to marriage. In the end, over the following years, a debased and entirely changed Rath will nurture an intense and obsessive fixation on Lola; however, one final mortification still awaits the professor in his hometown.
Will Immanuel ever bounce back? —Nick Riganas The respected and ethically unyielding gymnasium professor, Immanuel Rath, reluctantly enters the loud and smoke-filled realm of the shabby Blue Angel--the cheap and questionable post-WWI German vaudeville cabaret where his students often frequent--after an ignoble and utterly unacceptable behaviour inside the classroom. Intent on catching them in the act to end once and for all their continuous demoralisation by the theatre's enchanting songstress, Lola Lola, Immanuel will soon fall from grace, as his blind and deep-rooted infatuation leads to matrimony. In the end, over the following five years, a degraded and entirely changed Rath will nurture a steady and equally unremitting fixation on Lola; however, one final mortification still awaits the good professor in his hometown.
Can Immanuel ever bounce back? —Nick Riganas.