The Blue Angel (1930)
Original Title: Der blaue Engel
Drama
7.3 (322 votes)
1h 48m
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.
Details
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Writer
- Josef von Sternberg
- Original Language
- German
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Eduard von Winterstein
Emil Jannings
Hans Albers
Hans Roth
Károly Huszár
Kurt Gerron
Marlene Dietrich
Reinhold Bernt
Rolf Müller
Rosa Valetti
Keywords
based on novel or book
black and white
cabaret performer
cuckold
descent into madness
downfall
downward spiral
expressionism
femme fatale
moral corruption
pre-code
professor
seductress
self-destructive behavior
sexual obsession
traveling circus
unrequited love
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