Emil Jannings

The Blue Angel features Marlene Dietrich at her most seductive as the nightclub singer Lola-Lola who destroys repressed schoolteacher Emil Jannings.

This European fantasy features excellent and surprisingly imaginative clay animation combined with live-action to tell the story of a man who sells his soul to Satan without the benefit of a lawyer.

This film is the bleak fable of an aging door-man whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his pride and happiness.

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious Hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.