#277 – The Blue Angel, (Der blaue Engel), 1930, Josef von Sternberg
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette – whose job is to entice men – proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
#568 – All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930, Lewis Milestone
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.
#728 – L’Âge d’Or, 1930, Luis Buñuel
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
#815 – Earth, (Земля), 1930, Alexander Dovzhenko
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
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