Although this is done in English, there were many German actors in this early Marlene Dietrich "talkie." The first third of this film is so boring, I wonder how many first-time viewers would stick around to watch the whole thing? It's not easy. Don't expect a lot of dialog, either, because there are a lot of scenes of long silent pauses.
Dietrich ("Lola") looked heavy to me, not the sexy Marlene I know from subsequent '30s films, especially "Blonde Venus" which was done just two years later.
Emil Jennings plays a stuffy teacher who becomes enamored with this cabaret singer (Dietrich loved those roles!) and gets his heart broken (she liked to do that to men, too!).
All in all, too depressing a story to recommend, except to those sadistic viewers - and there are number of them out there - who enjoy seeing a person (particularly a man) mentally tortured. For them, this movie is worth checking out.
Dietrich ("Lola") looked heavy to me, not the sexy Marlene I know from subsequent '30s films, especially "Blonde Venus" which was done just two years later.
Emil Jennings plays a stuffy teacher who becomes enamored with this cabaret singer (Dietrich loved those roles!) and gets his heart broken (she liked to do that to men, too!).
All in all, too depressing a story to recommend, except to those sadistic viewers - and there are number of them out there - who enjoy seeing a person (particularly a man) mentally tortured. For them, this movie is worth checking out.