Rolf Müller

Immanuel Rath, yaşlı ve bekar bir profesördür. Öğrencilerinden duyduğu "Mavi Melek" adlı gece kulübüne onları yakalamak amacıyla gider. Gizlice gittiği gece kulübünde Lola Lola adlı dansçıya herkes gibi o da tutulur. Artık her akşam Lola'yı ziyaret etmeden duramaz hale gelir. Gece hayatı tıpkı bir girdap gibi onu içine çeker. Sürekli bir hayal alemi içinde derslerde bile Lola'yı düşünerek kendinden geçer. Lola'nın başka erkeklerle olmasından ölümüne rahatsız olduğu için onun tüm ihtiyaçlarını karşılamaya çalışır. Bu onun giderek çöküşüne yol açmaya başlar.

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.

Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.

"Operation Valkyrie" was the name of an official alarm plan during the Second World War. With the help of this plan, the conspirators around Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg wanted to bring about the overthrow of Germany on July 20, 1944. The events are well known: Stauffenberg's assassination attempt failed, Adolf Hitler remained alive. In addition to the purely scenic reconstruction, this two-part, documentary-style film consists of interspersed interviews and reports with eyewitnesses and survivors who were directly involved. Everything that is available in the way of authentic testimony about July 20, 1944 is examined and documented with the highest degree of realism.