The Blue Angel

The Blue Angel (1930)

01/04/1930
Drama
1h 48m

You Too, Will Be Aroused By Her Intoxicating Beauty! "This Woman Makes a Man of Dignity a Slave to Love!"

Overview

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.

  • Josef von SternbergDirector, Writer
  • Carl WinstonWriter
  • Carl ZuckmayerWriter
  • Original Title

    Der blaue Engel

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    German

Keywords

  • based on novel or book
  • sexual obsession
  • professor
  • femme fatale
  • unrequited love
  • descent into madness
  • downfall
  • black and white
  • traveling circus
  • seductress
  • pre-code
  • cuckold
  • expressionism
  • cabaret performer
  • downward spiral
  • moral corruption
  • self-destructive behavior

Top Billed Cast

Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

Immanuel Rath

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

Lola Lola

Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

Kiepert

Rosa Valetti

Rosa Valetti

Guste

Hans Albers

Hans Albers

Mazeppa

Reinhold Bernt

Reinhold Bernt

The Clown

Károly Huszár

Károly Huszár

The Blue Angel's Proprietor

Eduard von Winterstein

Eduard von Winterstein

School Headmaster

Hans Roth

Bedel

Rolf Müller

Pupil

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