Cinema / Film

The Blue Angel

Belvedere Road, South Bank, London

Mon 14 Sept · 14:40 · £9.50

Josef von Sternberg · 106m · Film

About this event

A buttoned-up schoolteacher is driven to insanity by obsessive desire, following a chance encounter with a chanteuse at a local cabaret. Headliner Lola Lola, brought to sparkling life by Dietrich – von Sternberg’s regular on-screen collaborator – soon seduces him from his respectable world and into Berlin’s erotic subterranea. Jannings is pitiful yet sympathetic as a hapless stooge unable to resist Lola’s world, in all its glamour and filth.