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The Blue Angel
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1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg
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7.3Prim 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.
Cast
- Emil Jannings as Immanuel Rath
- Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola
- Kurt Gerron as Kiepert
- Rosa Valetti as Guste
- Hans Albers as Mazeppa
- Reinhold Bernt as The Clown
Themes
- based on novel or book
- sexual obsession
- professor
- femme fatale
- unrequited love
- descent into madness
- downfall
- black and white
- traveling circus
- seductress
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
17,200 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
90/100
- Year
- 1930
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Rated
- Passed
- Awards
- 3 wins total
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Key facts
- German
- Der blaue Engel
- Directed by
- Josef von Sternberg
- Written by
- Carl Zuckmayer Karl Vollmöller Robert Liebmann Josef von Sternberg
- Based on
- Professor Unrat , by Heinrich Mann
- Produced by
- Erich Pommer
- Starring
- Marlene Dietrich Emil Jannings Kurt Gerron
- Cinematography
- Günther Rittau Hans Schneeberger
- Edited by
- Walter Klee Sam Winston
- Music by
- Friedrich Hollaender Robert Liebmann (lyrics) Franz Waxman (orchestrations)
- Distributed by
- Universum Film A.G.
- Release date
- 1 April 1930 ( 1930-04-01 ) (Germany)
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Country
- Germany
- Languages
- German English
- Box office
- $77,982 (2001 re-release)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Professor Unrat
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Screenwriter
- Josef von Sternberg
- Composer
- Friedrich Hollaender
- Producer
- Erich Pommer
- Production company
- UFA
- Narrative location
- Germany
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 450846
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- The-Blue-Angel-Dietrich.jpg
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- publication date
- 1930-01-01
- title
- Der blaue Engel
- Commons category
- Der blaue Engel (1930 film)
- color
- black-and-white
- production designer
- Otto Hunte
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- cabaret
- review score
- 7.6/10
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Blue Angel (German: Der blaue Engel) is a 1930 German musical comedy-drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Kurt Gerron.
Written by Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller and Robert Liebmann, with uncredited contributions by Sternberg, it is based on Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel Professor Unrat (Professor Filth) and set in an unspecified northern German port city. The Blue Angel presents the tragic transformation of a respectable professor into a cabaret clown and his descent into madness. The film brought Dietrich international fame and introduced her signature song, Friedrich Hollaender and Robert Liebmann's "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)". The film is considered a classic of German cinema.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Blue Angel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.