Blue Angel is a pre-World War 1 German film directed by Joseph Von Strindberg about an eccentric professor who marries a destitute cabaret singer named Lola Lola. This changes his life as he leaves his academic career behind and transforms into a clown-like figure subjugated to Lola's libido. The film explores the professor's psychological transformation and subjugation to Lola, representing the subjugation of his masculine psyche to the anima. It is seen as emblematic of Weimar Germany and uses settings of stairs, streets, and indoor locations to tell a story of humor, tragedy, and transient states of mind.

1.  Blue Angel
A movie shot in the pre-World War 1 period.
This movie is known as the emblematic of Weimar Germany.
Joseph Von Strindberg is the director who was deeply influenced by
the Hollywood film ideology and its apparatus.
Blue Angel is the story of an eccentric absent minded professor
marrying a destitute vagrant girl of a local cabaret. This turns his life
totally. His life long suppression of sexual desires manifest as a sort
of adoration of her feminine skills. He forgets all his academic life
and leaves it in a moment of humiliation by his students. The very
students were the reason for his accidental visit to the cabaret. The
vagrant girl is the headline of this cabaret. She is named ‘Lola Lola’.
The whole movie is taken in a working class township. From the
discipline of the class room and monotony of Professor Rath, story
progresses to the anarchist world of cabaret and low art. From an
academician ‘Rath’ transforms into a weird clown in the company
of destitute and flesh traders.
But ‘Lola Lola’ and her instincts remain the same; always she is
attracted to new men. When Professor Rath meets Lola for the first
time a clown is found roaming passively all over the cabaret. Fate
of Professor turns out to be the same, but he has an alter ego that
resist the subjugation of lat of his ego to her libido. She treats him
like a slave.
Many a people find the elements of Jungian analytical psychology
in this movie. There are some scenes where Prof: Rath shows
gestures of a child in front of the charismatic Lola. It is sometimes
denoted as the subjugation to the anima of his masculine psyche.
The film is a good composition of humor, tragedy and transient
states of mind. The film set is full of stairs and narrow streets. Also
we can see most of the events in the movie is shot inside various
indoor locations.