The Blue Angel (1930)
April 1, 1930
Drama
1h 48m
You Too, Will Be Aroused By Her Intoxicating Beauty! "This Woman Makes a Man of Dignity a Slave to Love!"
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Immanuel Rath Emil Jannings
- Lola Lola Marlene Dietrich
- Kiepert Kurt Gerron
- Guste Rosa Valetti
- Mazeppa Hans Albers
- The Clown Reinhold Bernt
- The Blue Angel's Proprietor Károly Huszár
- School Headmaster Eduard von Winterstein
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Keywords
- based on novel or book
- 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