If you loved Der Diener, try Der blaue Engel
Eine Brücke zwischen einem Film, den du schon gesehen hast, und einem, den kaum jemand kennt. Das teilen sie, und was der zweite macht, was der erste nicht macht.
Was sie teilen
Theysit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Der Diener, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Der blaue Engel is
Von Sternberg scales down from epics to an academic undone by a dancer. A starchy professor follows students to a Weimar cabaret and loses his career to a blonde bombshell whose act is all legs and come-ons. The fallout: a clownish, cuckolded husband in a moth-eaten suit.

